In the early 1900s, the town of Idlewild in northeastern Michigan was a vacation resort for prominent African-Americans. The community, known as Michigan's 'Black Eden' from 1912 through the mid-1960s, was said to have gotten its name because of idle men and wild women. This area was a resort unlike any other in the United […]
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