Sengstacke In the Snow At Idlewild

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)