Chicken Bone Beach, Historic beach at Missouri Avenue in Atlantic City, United States.

Chicken Bone Beach is a section of shoreline along Missouri Avenue with sandy beach and direct access to the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The location sits where the city's entertainment district meets the ocean, with the Boardwalk running parallel to the waterline.

Segregation at this stretch of Atlantic City beach began around 1900, driven partly by pressure from local businesses, and lasted until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. No law or sign barred Black bathers from other sections; local authorities and white beachgoers enforced the separation. The Atlantic City Beach Patrol assigned its Black members here in practice. The nickname came from chicken bones supposedly found during cleanups, a claim the sources call unfounded.

Locals gave the beach its nickname for the chicken bones supposedly found during clean-ups, though the reports were unfounded; the Black community has reclaimed the name as a point of resistance and pride. Black showgirls from Club Harlem called it "Sunshine Row" in the mid-twentieth century, when Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Jordan, the Mills Brothers and Jackie "Moms" Mabley performed in the city.

The beach lies between Missouri and Mississippi Avenues, near the Northside neighborhood, with the Atlantic City Boardwalk running alongside. Lifeguards watch the water in season. In summer, Chicken Bone Beach Jazz concerts take place at the Kennedy Plaza outdoor amphitheater next to the beach; in cooler months they move to the Claridge Hotel.

The Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, founded by Atlantic City native Henrietta W. Shelton, installed a commemorative marker at the site in 2015. Its Youth Jazz Institute gives free music lessons, and in cooler months the weekly jazz concerts move indoors to the Claridge Hotel.