Celebrating the California Dream:
A Look at Forgotten Stories and Other Musings
Alison Rose Jefferson
Belmar History + Art, a Santa Monica Commemorative Justice Initiative Continues Rolling Out 2020–2021
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...
Hello 2021 and ARJ News!
Peace Love Joy and Fulfillment Hope Inspirational Dreams and Infinite Possibilities Good Health Safety Prosperity Wishing you and yours these things in 2021 and beyond. Love the Past. Embrace...
ARJ News – Fight the Power!
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...
Rising Up: African American Sites of Conscience in Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica, CA
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...
ARJ selected for a 2020 LACHS Award and the LA Times Festival of Books; Other News
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...
LA Times and the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Give Shout Outs to Living the California Dream… book, More Event Dates and Exciting News
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...
Another Step Forward for the Belmar History + Art Civic Commemoration Project
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...
National Park Service approves Bay Street Beach Historic District Listing on the NRHP!
The Bay Street Beach Historic District was approved for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in June by the National Park Service. This site, has sometimes been called "the...
The Problem with Ancestry.com
As a subscriber since 2006, it was very disconcerting to learn in the article, “Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy” by Adam H. Domby for Black Perspectives on...