In the 1950s and ‘60s, the city evicted the mostly Black and Latino working-class residents of Section 14 and destroyed their homes. Now, survivors and their descendants seek reparations.
Section 14 survivors and descendants pose for a recent photo in Palm Springs with their attorney, Areva Martin, at center wearing black.
The consultant will also be providing “additional historical research that may be necessary to develop a complete understanding of what occurred before, during and after the displacement took place,” Palm Springs spokesperson Amy Blaisdell said in an email.“abatement” in Section 14,... We were very happy there. Everybody got along. It was all races, Blacks, Mexicans, Filipinos, whites. We all got along. We were all friends, you know … we’d dance in the parking lot, and everybody came.
Alvin Taylor, left, and Delia Ruiz Taylor. Both grew up in Section 14 and were forced to leave as children; they reconnected and married decades later. At one point after she moved, Ruiz Taylor said she was shot in the leg with a BB gun by local boys who hurled racial slurs at her.The ‘trauma…stays there forever’
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