Architecture + Advocacy in L.A.’s Sugar Hill Trudi Sandmeier 0:00Today on Save As … Kianna Armstrong 0:01It was powerful to know that in the past there were people that looked like me that were living in these spaces and they…
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Surf, Sand, and Self-Determination: Jim Crow-Era Leisure for Black Angelenos
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.
Alison shares some of the struggles, successes, and legacies of Black leisure spaces in early twentieth-century SoCal. We also hear from an oral history with the late Verna (Deckard Lewis) Williams, who experienced fun in the sun—and racism from white beachgoers—firsthand.
Read MoreSeason 3, Episode 1Surf, Sand and Self-Determination: Jim Crow-Era Leisure for Black Angelenos Trudi Sandmeier 0:00Today on Save As: Alison Rose Jefferson 0:01The African American folks who were here in Los Angeles and Santa Monica figured out that they can hang out at…