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 - https://www.laconservancy.org/locatio...

A write up on the incredible performance of the Jefferson High School Track team - https://web.archive.org/web/201109291...

More backgrounds on the 1968 Walkouts - https://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 - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...

More about Jefferson's small learning communities - https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...

Jefferson's current enrollment - https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/...

Details on Jefferson's modernization project - https://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: https://southlarecap.com/2022/11/06/j...