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

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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 a...

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Autor principal: Stephens, Ronald Jemal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Manners and customs.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
African Americans > Michigan > Idlewild > History.
African Americans > Michigan > Idlewild > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Michigan > Idlewild > Social conditions.
Michigan > Idlewild.
Idlewild (Mich.) > History.
Idlewild (Mich.) > Social life and customs.
Idlewild (Mich.) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Idlewild in Historical Context and Contemporary Times
  • The Idlewild Resort Company and Developments in the New Negro Movement at a Unique, Utopian Negro Resort Town
  • Racial Uplift and Economic Progress During the Depression and World War II
  • Phil Giles Enterprises : Promoting and Sustaining Tourism and Economic Development in the Resort Capital of America
  • Arthur "Daddy" Braggs and the Arthur Braggs Idlewild Revue : Making Entertainment and Civil Rights History During the Cold War
  • Blazing Flames, the Big Comeback, and the Revue's Exit from the Idlewild Scene : Tantalizing Mexican Dance Tales and the Tracks
  • Turning the Entertainment Economic Engine Off : Socioeconomic Decline and Unintended Consequences During the Post-Civil Rights Era
  • Idlewild : the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Music Festivals, Infrastructural Changes, a Historic Preservation Ceremony, and a Centennial Celebration
  • Myths, Realities, and Possibilities of Revitalizing Michigan's "Black Eden."

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