Yes, they held Methodist church revivals at Oak Bluffs in the summer every year on the Vineyard. All the black people lived in these brightly colored Victorian cottages in Oak Bluffs. The rich white people all lived down in Edgartown. Which is where people like the Kennedy’s hung out on the island.
There is beach in Oak Bluffs called the Ink Well. It was because everyone that went to that beach was Black.