I was honored to be a leader in the first ever tour programming in Southern California sponsored by The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Participants explored and discovered two-dozen historical landscapes in Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Santa Monica through a series of FREE expert-led tours highlighting the region’s remarkable landscape legacy.
On Sunday, October 27 from 1.00- to 2.30pm I lead a tour entitled Ocean Park Neighborhood Beach: Race, Real and Remembrance. To learn more about my tour click here.
For more information on the full schedule of weekend tours and to register for other TCLF free tours click here.
At 4th & Bay Streets, Historian Alison Rose Jefferson shares with walking tour participants history of Santa Monica’s Ocean Park neighborhood and the community’s first African American church, Phillip’s Chapel CME, founded in 1905. TCLF What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles, October 27, 2013. Photography by Les Sechler.
At Pico and Oceanfront Walk, Historian Alison Rose Jefferson shares with walking tour participants information about the history of African American beach culture at this Santa Monica site during America’s Jim Crow era (1900s–early 1960s). TCLF What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles, October 27, 2013. Photography by Les Sechler. (Click to enlarge)
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson shares information with walking tour participants about the northern end of what was once the African American beach space during America’s Jim Crow era (1900s–early 1960s), standing at Pico at Oceanfront Walk on top the Pico-Kenter storm drain outflow cover with the Santa Monica Pier in the background. TCLF What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles, October 27, 2013. Photography by Les Sechler. (Click to enlarge)
