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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town

Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town

Stephens, Ronald J.

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Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryBlack American Studies

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ISBN10: 0472035908
ISBN13: 9780472035908
Publisher: University of Michigan Regional
Published: Sep 30 2013
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 hosting the era's premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resulting expansion of recreation options available to African Americans, Idlewild suffered a sharp social and economic decline, and by the early 1980s the town had become a struggling retirement community in the midst of financial and political crises.

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