beaches

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  8/27/2021
  

  A Historic Seaside Community: Recovering Santa Monica's "Inkwell" Beach

  by Brian Dunlap

  "Memorial Day 1920. A young African American chauffeur, Arthur Valentine, settled on “Whites Only” Topanga Beach. With friends and family, he stepped from his truck. Three sheriff’s deputies demanded that they leave."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  4/5/2021
  

  What Manhattan Beach’s Racist Land Grab Really Meant

  by Alison Rose Jefferson

  Debates over  the redress of past racial injustice must acknowledge that some past actions have harmed communities in ways that can't be repaired, including the loss of space for communal leisure or equal access to everyday pleasures. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2021
  

  This Black Family Ran a Thriving Beach Resort 100 Years Ago. They Want Their Land Back.

  The descendants of the Bruce family seek restitution for the taking of their family's beachfront land, which had been Southern California's first beach resort serving African Americans. Historian Alison Rose Jefferson says recreational access was an underappreciated facet of the struggle for justice. 

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• SOURCE: South Bay (CA) Daily Breeze
  8/9/2020
  

  Manhattan Beach to Present Bruce's Beach History, Community Awaits Historians' Voices

  Alison Rose Jefferson had been scheduled to brief the Manhattan Beach City Council about how to commemorate a stretch of beach historically used by Black Californians barred from other parts of the coastline. Her participation ended under disuputed circumstances.