Overtown (Miami)
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Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States, just northwest of Downtown Miami. Originally called Colored Town in the Jim Crow era of the late 19th through the mid-20th century, the are
NW 3rd Avenue
Overtown Folklife Village sign on the NW 2nd Avenue
Overtown Music and Arts Festival
Lyric Theater, 1914
Booker T. Washington Senior High School is a normal four year High School located at 1200 NW 6th Avenue in Miami, Florida, United States. It is located in the Overtown neighborhood, and serves familie
Overtown (Miami)
…1920s, Overtown was home to one of the first black millionaires in the American South, D. A. Dorsey (who once owned Fisher Island), and the original Booker T. Washington High School, then the first high school educating black students south of Palm Beach. Community organizing and mobilization during the era, as such in actions of…
Booker T. Washington High School