Brief History on Jefferson High School in South LA | The Rise and Rebirth of Jefferson
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Thomas Jefferson High School in Southeast Los Angeles stands as the fourth oldest high school in the entire city. Opened in 1916, the Jefferson was recognized for its outstanding architecture, investments in sports and music, and its progressive faculty. But that legacy changed less than a century later. So what does Jefferson High School mean to the South LA community today? What lies ahead for the future of Jefferson in South Central?
More about Thomas Jefferson High School from @laconservancy - www.laconservancy.org/locatio...
A write up on the incredible performance of the Jefferson High School Track team - web.archive.org/web/201109291...
More backgrounds on the 1968 Walkouts - guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-r...
The full episode of Bewitched "Sisters at Heart" is available to watch on Official Bewitched Facebook page - / 1173875339813648
More about the charter proposal for Jefferson High School - www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
More about Jefferson's small learning communities - www.npr.org/templates/story/s...
Jefferson's current enrollment - nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/...
Details on Jefferson's modernization project - achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib/CA0...
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:57 Building Jefferson
2:23 The Shake Up
3:09 Introducing the new Jefferson
4:14 The Walkout of 1968
5:30 Bewitched at Jefferson
6:48 The Shift
7:20 Jefferson in the 2000s
Read the write up: southlarecap.com/2022/11/06/j...
What story would you like to share about Jeff?
Fun fact: The Jefferson high campus is used as the Crenshaw High Chargers’ campus in the Netflix series “All American”
@@tylerboulware3468 nice! I’m going to have to check that out
@@tylerboulware3468 yup. I remembered that. I think it was the first episode too. I was like...that's not Crenshaw, that's Jeff!
Barry White went to Jefferson High & his first day,it was about 10 Guys wanting to Jump Barry but my Uncles told them to give him a Fair One! Barry Won & that was it,Barry was Gang Affiliated so that led to him getting into 💩 (Businessmen) South Park aka 53 Avalon Gang! My Uncle was with Barry during the 1965 Rebellion & Barry told my Uncle that his Real Sir. Are was Carter & not White was his Mother’s Maiden Name! After their Father Denial of him & his Brother
Ernie Hudson the Warden from OZ Ghostbusters & Sugar Hill,is from the Low Bottoms & went to Jefferson HS! Many of the people in those Old Dolemite (Fruity Ray Moore)Movies lived in the Area! And yes he was LGBT before there was an LGBT😳
Thank you. I lived in the area up until 7 years old. What a rich and important history to embrace.
I’m happy to share it with you. Thanks for tuning in!
Thank you for highlighting the history of South LA.
Thanks for tuning in, Michael. I'm glad to do it!
Great story! I enjoyed learning about the original architecture and the various changes that happened to Jefferson High over the last 100 years. Kudos!
This school is a 2 minute walk from my house. However, my parents and I opted to send me to another high-school, since Jefferson lacks several resources and most students aren’t being adequately prepared for college. Also, last year when I was a freshman. My teacher had us read an article about an alumni that attended this school, long story short, college was a brutal experience and he ultimately dropped out.
Really it was about 2 minutes from my house too, I lived on e 33rd st
Wow, nothing has changed. I lived across the street from Jeff and didn't attend. My parents enrolled me in a school that would prepare me
for college. My High School years began in 1982. There are no words for this failure and stagnation. Shaking my head.
I absolutely love this channel, and all the history I’m learning about my beloved City…..Please continue your excellent work
Thanks so much for your support, @redrose1721. There’s so much more work to cover!
I grew up by 23rd and Trinity in South Central my older brothers attended this school
Keep up the great work. Love your channel.
Thank you!
Now, in 2023, Jefferson High School comprise of mostly Hispanic kids. I think the percentage is over 70%.
I ATTENDED JEFF IN 1995 AND GRADUATED 1999. HAD MY UPS AND DOWNS DURING HIGH SCHOOL, BUT 1 MATH TEACHER WHICH WAS MR. OLIVERIO MADE ME REALIZE I HAD POTENTIAL TO BE SOMEONE IN LIFE. I WAS THE SCHOOL DJ FOR 1998 AND 1999 UNTIL I GRADUATED, DJYING FOOTBALL RALLIES, TO HOMECOMING DANCES AT THE BONAVENTURE HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN LA. I YEARN FOR THOSE YEARS AND WISH I CAN RELIVE THOSE PRECIOUS MOMENTS ONE MORE TIME. NOW I HAVE A CAREER AT COCA COLA AND OWN MY OWN BUSINESS, GUESS MR. OLIVERIO WAS RIGHT, I CAN BE SOMEONE IN LIFE. I JUST WISH TODAYS YOUTH CAN LIVE EVERYDAY AND CHERISH IT BECAUSE ONE DAY THEY WILL WANT TO RELIVE IT ALL, AS I WISH I COULD. CLASS OF 1999, DEMOS FOREVER. MY NICKNAME WAS PEWEE AND HOPE ANY OTHER CLASSMATES READ THIS AND SHARE POSITIVE MEMORIES.
@jose--why are you yelling?
Thanks for the informative video. Both of my grandparents (paternal) graduated from Jeff in the 1940’s.
Glad I could share it with you. But that's pretty cool you have such a longstanding link to the school!
Thanks for sharing so much history with us. I wonder what the budget for this school was then, versus now, and what has and hasn't been cut. Along with LAUSD as a whole.
Thanks, Moses! I couldn’t find anything a budget, but there’s a stark decline after the early 1950s in services offer, and the LA Times refers to it as a “ghetto” school by the 70s.
I might look into how I can examine the decline of school budgets in South LA at LAUSD. It’s very interesting, now that you mention it
My father's and his siblings' and my mother's Alma Mater. My uncle Joel Stafford set records in track and field in the 1950's.
So many of my family member went to and graduated from here.
I attended their continuation school briefly but was a Manual Arts Student. My family is from that side of town -- my mom still lives in the area.
May I ask, How do you get all this information? Do you google or do you access a specific archive? When I was in 3rd grade to my early teens, I lived off 33rd and Compton right across the street on the side of Jeff. I would have gone to that school had I not moved to North East LA. I recently revisited the area as I saw on Google Maps my old home was demolished. To see Nevin trapped in time with graffiti and how unkempt it has remained as it has not changed much from the 80s was very melancholic to me. I walked by Snyder Park as well and saw all the construction at Jeff and wondered what was happening. I saw the Nava school and all the transfer pictures as well. I always thought Jeff was beautiful aesthetically and while I did not get to attend that school I did visit it in 1994 during lunchtime and they had a DJ playing. It was so easy to get into the school at that time. Not now I am sure. Thank you for bringing back all these memories. Could you dive into why there came to be so many industrial buildings in the area? Since I assume it must of been very nice at one point.
A lot of it is digging into old newspaper archives, reviewing yearbooks, going to LAPL central library. It’s more tedious than anything else. What keeps me coming back is how hurried all this info is.
The Nevis area definitely has had a lot of transformation. That’s certainly something I could look up!
I met Barry White & One of the Whispers @ Jefferson HS in 1988,they was talking about my Uncle Jerry Spry who they ran with during the 1965 Rebellion!
I like to see other videos history of all the high schools in Los Angeles like we did with this high school
Correction: Nava College Prep Academy is a high school, not a middle school.
I like the histories of elementary schools middle schools junior high schools high school history on the schools history
Had my maternal grandmother not moved my mom and uncle to Fresno, both of them would've gone to Jeff. My paternal aunt, my siblings' maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather's youngest siblings all went to Jeff.
Dolomite the Actor filmed most of his Movies in & Around Jefferson High School Area,(Low Bottoms) it has that Name because you are @ the Bottom of Los Angeles & if you keep heading East on Vernon Avenue you will End-Up in the City of Vernon! Also I forgot to mention The Late Roger Mosley also went to Jefferson HS & his Mother was an Administrator @ Hooper Elementary School until She Retired! Much Love to them & RIP
Rudy ray Moore
Booty Ray Moore 🤣 He was LGBT but he put 💰in Brothers Pockets!😳
Rudy Ray Moore & Richard Pryor was both,going with the same Transformer😳 I forgot his Name?🤣
Not many people know the east side as the low bottoms. But I grew up on that term lol - we lived on 23rd street between Centra and Hooper until 1993
Adolph Caesar Sergeant from the Movie “A Soldier’s Story” & Bernie Hamilton (Starksky Hutch TV show) both from the Area Actors from Jefferson High School Drama Programme
I went there, sad to see that they broke the campus into several schools. Class of '02. I wont miss the extreme walks from one end of the school ( northwest corner ) to the cafeteria ( south side ) just to go have lunch. That was like a 4-10 min walk and by the time we got to the cafeteria, the lines were extremely full. Which meant we would spend additional time to get food, only to be left with 10-15 mins of lunch and had to eat at a faster pace. And that racial fight that most media reported, was really more about gang fights between youngsters who were in black and brown gangs. Most of the students there didnt hate each other. I know bc i had friends and family still going there after me. Just the media flaming the fires of racism for a good story.
Thanks for watching @invalidacess. And thanks for adding your experience here. I can only imagine how much of a pain the campus was to walk! But at the same time, it must have been cool to attend a traditional high school.
I couldn’t find enough information to back it up, but it looks as if the small learning communities dissolved and never materialized into 5 different schools. There was likely no need with the drop in enrollment.
Still: This school used to teach thousands during an academic year. To see the enrollment below 800 is pretty sad, but it’s a reality that most of the original South LA high schools are experiencing….
@@SouthLARecap oh well i do hope it stays at one school and i do hope they do modernize it. Even though I went there 20+ years ago, it felt outdated. Maybe if they want to keep the exterior as is, that's fine but the interior can be upgraded. They are doing that in some old buildings across the city. Keeping the old but making the insides new.
I was in English Class the morning President Kennedy was Shot and Killed , Mrs Eason gave us the news at 1101am class Dismissed. John
My Alma Marta, Kelly Green and Gold
I graduated in 94…crazy 90s..kids got murder around the school real often back then..gang violence was no joke in the 90s..brawls in the school non stop…good years and memories..democrat forever!!!
Sad to say Jefferson is the same 3 african American vs Latinos brawls happened in the time span of 2 months, I was one of the students involved which I was also on the varsity football team, due to the local gang which is the 38s, basically the 38s run the school and administrators let them, they even have members of the 38s as campus aids. In result most of are season got canceled and most of the african American kids either left or got expelled with me being one of them.
My 12yr old son beat up a 38th gang 10th grader at Jefferson’s campus.. my son told him that his hood was all ghetto and looked like trash 😅🤣🤣🤣
Jefferson High is one of the worst schools in LA. When I was acting up in highschool they would threaten to send me there.
I went to jeff, kind of funny that we are called the democrats because now I am a republican 😂