Portrait of a group of unidentified people (friends and/or family members of future newspaper publisher John H. Sengstacke) as they pose on the beach outside the Idlewild Club House, Idlewild, Michigan, September 1938. Idlewild, known as 'the Black Eden,' was a resort community that catered to African Americans, who were excluded from other resorts prior to the passage of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
Portrait of an unidentified couple (friends and/or family members of future newspaper publisher John H. Sengstacke) in a rowboat near the shore of Idlewild Lake, Idlewild, Michigan, September 1938. Idlewild, known as 'the Black Eden,' was a resort community that catered to African Americans, who were excluded from other resorts prior to the passage of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
Portrait of future newspaper publisher John H. Sengstacke (1912 - 1997) as he poses in the snow at the entrance gate to the Oakmere Hotel, Idlewild, Michigan, 1938. The hotel was founded by African-American Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a pioneering cardiologist who performed the first successful open-heart surgery. Idlewild, known as 'the Black Eden,' was a resort community that catered to African Americans, who were excluded from other resorts prior to the passage of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
Portrait of an unidentified family (friends and/or family members of future newspaper publisher John H. Sengstacke) as they pose with a horse (the youngest one astride the horse), Idlewild, Michigan, September 1938. Idlewild, known as 'the Black Eden,' was a resort community that catered to African Americans, who were excluded from other resorts prior to the passage of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
Wintry view of the Idlewild Club House, as seen from the frozen surface of Lake Idlewild, Idlewild, Michigan, 1938. Idlewild, known as 'the Black Eden,' was a resort community that catered to African Americans, who were excluded from other resorts prior to the passage of the Civil RIghts Act of 1964. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
