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It remained a blacks only beach until the 1964 civil rights act was passed.
A pictorial history of atlantic citys missouri avenue beach.
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Chicken bone beach book. Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading chicken bone beach. Most had once been integrated but southern white vacationers had successfully pressured the resorts to segregate african americans and whites in the 1890s and early 1900s. Cheryl woodruff brooks is a legislative assistant with the pennsylvania house of representatives who recently completed her masters of arts in american studies at pennsylvania state university.
Despite racial division in america chicken bone beach. While some books have been published about the northside little has been written about chicken bone beach. Included are images research and oral interviews of atlantic city residents. There are a ton of interesting stories to be told brooks said.
Cheryl woodruff brooks has compiled this history of atlantic citys racially segregated beach during its heyday from the 1920s through the 1960s and the residents who lived on the northside near the established missouri avenue beach. During the segregation era the beach provided recreation and later stellar entertainment for african americans both. Atlantic city nj sunbury press has released chicken bone beach. Chicken bone beach and its history became nearly forgotten until a graduate student uncovered information about it while studying atlantic city as a tourist destination for black families.
A pictorial history of atlantic citys missouri avenue beach by cheryl woodruff brooks paperback 999 available to ship in 1 2 days. Chicken bone beach ironically the jersey shore beaches were just as segregated by race as those here in north carolina. A pictorial history of atlantic citys missouri avenue beach kindle edition by woodruff brooks cheryl. The stories behind chicken bone beach are the ones that i enjoy hearing about how people built a community and helped each other make it during a difficult time in african american history.
A pictorial history of atlantic citys missouri avenue beach by cheryl woodruff brooks. Despite racial division in america chicken bone beach functioned as an african american resort attracting celebrities civic leaders and other races. Located on the long stretch of the atlantic city new jersey shoreline just south of downtown chicken bone beach was designated as the exclusively african american section of beach around 1900. During the beachs heyday from the 1930s until 1964 when civil rights legislation struck down jim crow style segregation chicken bone beach was the place to go.