In a year’s time, the Belmar History +Art project’s historian Alison Rose Jefferson and artist April Banks with other contributors and Santa Monica City Government staff have produced a resonating...
Freedom, Liberation, and Justice Now On the beach, on the street and in the boutique window, social justice undertakings around the nation are actively using history to engage the public in critical...
New energy has arisen to reclaim the important marginalized California ocean coastline history of African American places of enjoyment, freedom struggle and community and economic development sabotaged...
The Los Angeles City Historical Society (LACHS) has selected me, Alison Rose Jefferson, as one of the individuals and organizations to be recognized in 2020 for exceptional contributions to the greater...
I am pleased to share my book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era was recently highlighted in the Los Angeles Times. In his article, "Book It, L.A. -- for...
Since July 2019 I have been the project historian on the City of Santa Monica public history and art project to recognize the early African American settlement that was located in the Belmar neighborhood...
