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Gloria Phillis, Butch Williams, and Cheryl Steele on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Mosley, John W

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Butch Williams posed holding Gloria Phillis and Cheryl Steele in his arms on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beach area. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named “Chicken Bone Beach.”

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Keywords

  1. African American Students
  2. African American Teenagers
  3. African Americans
  4. Bathing Suits
  5. Beaches
  6. Leisure

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