Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks, a graduate student in Penn State Harrisburg’s American studies program, thought she would do her thesis on the history of hip-hop. But a chance sighting of black-and-white photos in a Philadelphia gallery window in 2014 would eventually change her mind and open up to her a world during the 1930s to 1960s in which African-Americans ruled a section of Atlantic City beach, known as “Chicken Bone Beach.”
Penn State Harrisburg graduate student Cheryl Woodruff Brooks discovered images of Chicken Bone Beach, which led her to research the people who patronized the beach and the neighborhood that ran alongside the beach, the Northside.
Penn State Harrisburg graduate student, Cheryl Woodruff Brooks, discovered images of Chicken Bone Beach, which led her to research the people who patronized the beach and the neighborhood that ran alongside the beach, the Northside.
