Several years ago, Reginald Robinson found himself at Buckroe Beach in Hampton, Virginia, trying to point out to his wife exactly where he’d spent so much time playing in the sand as a young kid.
Living in Richmond in the 1960s, Robinson and his parents would travel often to then-Bay Shore Beach and stay at the Bay Shore Hotel, like thousands of other Black Americans up and down the East Coast.
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