Chicken Bone Beach, more formally known as Missouri Avenue Beach in New Jersey, was established because hotels did not want blacks to mingle with white tourists. African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. The beach was not far from the Northside, the city’s black neighborhood, where from the 1920s to the 1960s […]
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