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• Adrian Stanford Black and Queer
  Adrian Stanford (d: 1981) - No online obituary or birth certificate about the poet exists. Internet records suggest that his writings were most prolific in the 1960s and 1970s (Julenetrippweaver, n.d.).
• [Sammy Davis, Jr. on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey]
  Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. having fun with friends on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sammy Davis Jr. was an actor and musician famous for being a part of the famed "Rat Pack" in the 1950s and 1960s.
• [African-American sunbathers stroll down Missouri Avenue]
  Five smiling and styling women take a coordinated step forward down Missouri Avenue around Chicken Bone Beach, New Jersey.
• [Group of people having cocktails on the beach]
  Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection: 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”.
• [Woman wearing large straw hat poses on the beach]
  This photo features a smiling, glowing woman in a one-piece strapless bathing suit and a large straw hat posing in the sand in the sunshine at Chicken Bone Beach.
• [Family at the Atlantic City Beach Patrol Station]
  Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection: 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”.
• Letter from Anita Cornwell to Audre Lorde
  An impassioned letter between women who had a deep friendship. Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) was an American poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist (IMDb, n.d.). She received a master’s degree in Library Science and worked as a young adult librarian and school librarian in the 1960’s (Cerro Cosco Community College 2025). She also published poetry influenced by her reactions to racism, sexism, and homophobia. She married and had two children. Her first major book of poetry, Coal was published in 1976, and she continued to publish until her death from liver cancer in 1992.
• Chronicles I, Prose Poems by Anita Cromwell
  Anita Cornwell (1923 - 2023). Ms Cornwell’s “Chronicles 1, Prose Poems in 1986” is captured in digital form. The document opens with a dedication to Cornwell’s mother and a short biography highlighting her career as a writer and playwright, followed by the table of contents that lists five poems. They are: 1. First Love and Other Traumas 2. Second Coming 3. Sordid Mansions 4. In Praise of the Foremothers 5. Remembrance of Sister-Love
• Georgine E. Upshur [Willis], 1943 University of Pennsylvania Graduation
  This photograph features Mrs. Georgine "Gene" Elizabeth (née Upshur) Willis posing for her graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943.
• Gene's [Georgine E. Upshur [Willis]] Coming Out Party
  This photograph features Georgine “Gene” Elizabeth Upshur Willis and 15 other graduates of Philadelphia High School for Girls in June 1939. They are smiling and dressed up.
• Mrs. Gene Upshur Willis news clippings
  This collection of news clippings are about Upshur family achievements, including: Georgine Upshur and a Y.W.C.A. baby contest, her Philadelphia High School for Girls graduation and coming out parties, and passing of the state mortician’s exam circa 1949.