IDLEWILD, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff has donated $2,000 from returnable cans and bottles for improvement projects at Idlewild. It served as a major summer resort for African Americans in Michigan’s ...

IDLEWILD, Mich. — The traffic along US 10 blows right by a dirt-road entrance. But a newly built brick marker proclaims, optimistically, “Welcome to Idlewild, a historic community.” This dirt road — ...

LAKE COUNTY -- Once known as "Michigan's Black Eden," the Idlewild Resort in Lake County's Idlewild has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The resort, a former haven for blacks ...

IDLEWILD, Mich. — Idlewild, Michigan, was once known as a safe haven for Black Americans when segregation was at its peak. While the identity of the community hasn't changed today, its popularity has ...

Images from Michigan’s historic Idlewild resort are striking for their depictions of Black people vacationing and having a good time during a period in history where sociopolitical conditions made it ...

Tiny Idlewild wants to be Michigan's comeback story. And state and federal governments seem intent on making that happen in the historic community tucked away in the Manistee Forest. The Lake County ...

IDLEWILD – You'd never know this was once paradise. There's not much traffic on the crisscrossing dirt roads. The old shacks set back in the woods are mostly empty. There's little noise other than the ...

Idlewild is a summer resort town built in the 1920s and once one of the few places Black families could own property and vacation freely. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed, less people ...

Since the mid-1920s, Ann Hawkins has summered on an idyllic oasis in northwestern Michigan called Idlewild, once known by some as the Martha’s Vineyard of the Midwest, but for well-to-do black folk.

On Wednesday, July 20, ownership of a strip of Los Angeles’ Manhattan Beach—formerly known as “Bruce’s Beach”—was restored to the family of its original owners, Charles and Willa Bruce. In the early ...

IDLEWILD, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff has donated $2,000 from returnable cans and bottles for improvement projects at Idlewild. It served as a major summer resort for African Americans in Michigan's ...

Idlewild – A sheriff has donated $2,000 from returnable cans and bottles for improvement projects at Idlewild, which once served as a major summer resort for African Americans in Michigan’s ...