A fence divided the beach from adjacent Buckroe Beach, which was whites-only when segregation was in effect. The hotel was listed in the Green Book from 1947-58, and again from 1962-64 and 1966-67.

Founded by such black entrepreneurs as Hampton Institute bookkeeper Frank D. Banks and seafood magnate John Mallory Phillips, the Bay Shore Hotel Corp. bought 6 acres near “white” Buckroe ...