Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era

Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era explores the significance places within the African American experience in geography, California Dream mythology, Southern California outdoor culture, American history and identity, and contemporary heritage conservation efforts. The stories are about unrecognized and overlooked voices of extraordinary community builders, economic development initiatives and freedom rights struggle that add new information and understanding about how African Americans sought to seize their California and American Dreams to appropriate and shape the offerings of their new environment in the Far West.