Season 3, Episode 1 | Surf, Sand, and Self-Determination: Jim Crow-Era Leisure for Black Angelenos
By Cindy Olnick | Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation Podcast
September 27, 2022

We said “so long” to summer with a trip to the Santa Monica beach with historian Alison Rose Jefferson, whose work at USC launched a deep dive into African American recreation areas in the Golden State. Her master’s thesis on Lake Elsinore led to her widely acclaimed book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites in the Jim Crow Era.

Listen to the podcast and read the transcript here.