Oak Bluffs Holiday mecca for East Coast blacks

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An image of a newspaper clipping of an article about racial integration on Martha's Vineyard, titled "Oak Bluffs Holiday mecca for East Coast blacks." The article is printed in black ink on newsprint with handwritten inscriptions along the bottom that read [The Boston Globe July 5, 1983]. The article interviews inhabitants and visitors to Oak Bluffs, stating "Oak Bluffs has been a favorite Fourth of July haunt for prominent or well-to-do black residents of Boston and other East Coast cities." Interviewed in the article are Richard Taylor, Richard Douglas, and State Senator Royal Bolling Sr.. Past visitors mentioned include Irene Cara, Kern Grimes, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Senator Edward Brooke, Vernon E. Jordan, Diana Ross, and Suzanne DePasse.

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