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Article: Chicken Bone Beach Foundation marks 10th anniversary
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- Press of Atlantic City
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- August 1, 2007
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face=+Bold; ATLANTIC CITYface=-Bold; - Henrietta Shelton, president of the Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc., is on a mission to share Atlantic City's black history with local residents and visitors alike, as the foundation's 10th anniversary, kicked off with a July-August jazz concert series featured at Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk.
"I want to help others understand how rich our jazz heritage is," Shelton said.
Although Atlantic City may at one time have been referred to as "a place where your dreams can come true," it was not the case for African-Americans from 1900 to the early 1950's when they were socially restricted to the Missouri Avenue beach, later nicknamed ...