The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
by
Ronald J Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and...