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Idlewild, nicknamed 'The Black Eden' was founded in 1912 by four white couples, who, noting new opportunities opening up for black Americans, purchased 2,700 acres of woodland and lakes. They built cottages and a clubhouse and were soon attracting lawyers, doctors and business owners from across the Midwest. Early investors included WEB Dubois, a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Madam CJ Walker, a cosmetics entrepreneur reputed to have been the first black American millionaire; and novelist Charles Waddell Chesnutt.

The resort quickly became connected to the New Negro Movement. “It was the black elite, [with] the new attitude they had, and Idlewild became a site of cultural and intellectual development,” says Ronald J Stephens, an author and professor of African-American studies at Ohio University. “It was a place to escape racism but there was also an interracial class angle, to be far enough away from the working class.” After the second world war, the class landscape changed. A black middle class was developing, thanks to a thriving economy, with the car industry in particular surging ahead, and urban renewal. Another growth industry was music, as black musicians, many signed to Detroit’s Motown label, enjoyed mainstream success. “During the 1950s and 1960s it becomes a different place,” says Stephens. “Idlewild enters the era of entertainment.” Sarah Vaughan, BB King, Jackie Wilson, Lon Fontaine, Dinah Washington, the Spinners, T-Bone Walker and countless others performed at clubs in those two decades.

The Paradise’s music promoter, Arthur Braggs would scout artists across the US and bring them to Idlewild in the summers. In the off-season he would take the Arthur Braggs Idlewild Revue on tour across the US, Canada and Mexico. “My dad put on a production that allowed some of these acts to get signed with Motown,” says his daughter, Nichole Braggs, who organised the centenary reunion. “I think Idlewild definitely helped step up artists’ professionalism and understanding of what it took to be successful as an entertainer.” #idlewild Taken from a piece in the Financial Times

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