(KRON) -- The Alameda County Board of Education (ACBOE) passed a resolution Tuesday to pay $100,000 in restitution to families and descendants of Russell City residents.

Russell City was created as an unincorporated community during the 1930s in the area that is now Hayward. The county demolished the community three decades later, ACBOE said.

Alameda County Office of Education was part of Alameda County government during the 1960s, when Russell City properties were seized and destroyed through eminent domain powers, educators said.

One trustee on the board, Aisha Knowles, is the daughter of a former Russell City resident. She helped produce a documentary, titled "The Apology," about the community.

The restitution payment, according to ACBOE, is a step to acknowledge "historical harm" i

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