Author Talk - Chicken Bone Beach

158 West High Street,Carlisle PA 17013

11 March, 2023

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Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks has compiled this history of Atlantic City's 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. Join us for our March author talk with Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks! Register: https://cutt.ly/ChickenBoneBeachTalk Included in this author talk are images, research, and oral interviews of Atlantic City residents. Despite racial division in America, Chicken Bone Beach functioned as an African-American resort attracting celebrities, civic leaders, and other races. Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks, MBA/MA completed her first book, Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach (Sunbury Press) in 2017, which was nominated for a 2017 Literary Award with the Schomburg Center in New York City, used in classrooms at Purdue University and referenced in The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies. Cheryl has been involved in speaking engagements discussing her literary work at museums, schools, universities, and special events. Photo courtesy of Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks.