27 min

Bruce’s Beach, A California Dream The Beat with Mike Wesson

    • Society & Culture

You wouldn't know it today, but Manhattan Beach in California was once a destination, a playground for Black families in southern California - and there were others. Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson, researcher and native Californian tells the remarkable story of the legacy of these places in the book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era.

You wouldn't know it today, but Manhattan Beach in California was once a destination, a playground for Black families in southern California - and there were others. Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson, researcher and native Californian tells the remarkable story of the legacy of these places in the book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era.

27 min

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