Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race

Black Leaders of Leisure at California Beaches in the Struggle for Freedom during the Jim Crow Era: The Implications for their Stories for Our Lives Today

Discussion with author Alison Rose Jefferson

Moderated by Dr. Amy Hurley-Hanson & Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa

In partnership with First Year Focus | FFC: Business of Surfing

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Alison Rose Jefferson

Alison Rose Jefferson - Photo by Leroy Hamilton

A third generation Californian, Alison Rose Jefferson, M.H.C, Ph.D. is a historian and heritage conservation consultant. She reconstructs the stories of the African American experience which have been left out or marginalized in the telling of American history as a tool in the struggle for social justice. She is currently working on applied history projects dealing with the African American experience during the Jim Crow era. Working with Santa Monica’s Belmar History + Art project and the Central Avenue heritage trail with Angels Walk L.A, Jefferson is drawing on her research to guide and enrich these public programs at these Southern California locales that feature historical significance as well as contemporary consequence.