Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 6.00 pm Join Mayor Eric Garcetti and Our Authors Study Club for an Evening with African American Authors in celebration of Black History Month. The purpose of this program...
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 5.00 pm This presentation includes an overview of the author Alison Rose Jefferson’s book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 12 noon In her talk, Alison Rose Jefferson, will illuminate the African American migrations to Los Angeles and how this influenced the development of the popular music and...
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...
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...
