Public Historian and Author

Public Historian and Author

Interests: the history of California, the U.S. & the Black experience globally

ARJ || Breaking News, What a year! and Season’s Greetings || December 2025 | Alison Rose Jefferson
Black Californians have been at the forefront of beach culture. A museum exhibit helps tell that history
Opinion: Kevin de León's plan to rename Pershing Square is not the way to honor Black Angelenos
In L.A., Driving the Road to Black Empowerment | Essay
ARJ || Breaking News, Event Invitation and Season’s Greetings || December 2023
California dreamin’: scenes of Black joy and leisure in the Jim Crow era – in pictures
Beyond Bruce’s Beach. As California weighs reparations for Black Americans, Alison Rose Jefferson ’80 works to reclaim the history that was erased. Pomona College Magazine, June 1, 2023.
Black entrepreneurs built beach havens in California. Racism shut them down. The hidden history of Santa Monica's Black coastal enclaves. HighCountyNews, October 13, 2021
"Exhibit at Santa Monica park sheds light on Black history." Spectrum News1, August 7, 2021
"Bruce’s Beach Series From Plan B, Viola Davis & Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions In Works At Amazon." Deadline.com, May 20, 2021
"Belmar History + Art Wins a Santa Monica Conservancy 2021 Preservation Award." The Argonaut, June 30, 2021.
"Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, nearly erased by racism and ‘progress’." Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2021.
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson's website
“African Americans Persevered to Develop Communities During the Jim Crow Era.” CBS KCAL News, Friday, February 28, 2020.
"The true damage in a racist land grab" by Alison Rose Jefferson. Los Angeles Times, OpEd, April 5, 2021.