March 27th, 2014
Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ (1890-1998) name is synonymous with Florida environmental activism. The Minnesota-born, Wellesley College graduate came to Miami in 1915, at age 25, to work as a society columnist for the Miami Herald. Her father, Frank Stoneman, was editor-in-chief at the time Read More...
Tags: Big Cypress, Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress Swamp Jetport, Equal Rights Amendment, Florida environmental activism, Friends of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mary Bryan, The Everglades: River of Grass, The Miami Herald, Voice of the River, women’s suffrage
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February 20th, 2014
Booker T. Washington School Building, February 15, 1930. Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Grab your books, head out the door, and get ready for class at Booker T. Washington Senior High School. The Overtown high school has made recent news with its nationally ranked championship football team Read More...
Tags: Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Booker T. Washington High School, Booker T. Washington Middle School, Chapman House, Chapman House Ethnic Heritage Children’s Folklife Educational Center, Dr. William A. Chapman, Inc., Marvin Dunn’s Black Miami in the Twentieth Century, Masonry Vernacular, McHarry Architects, Miami Black Education, Overtown, Robert Bradford Browne, Sr.
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February 14th, 2014
Purvis Young in his studio. Photo Courtesy: The New York Times Student Journalism Institute
Beyond the constant roar of Interstate 95 and the scattered detritus of an era long forgotten, there are the brightly painted wall surfaces done by the late artist Purvis Young. The African-American artist, born in 1943, lived and worked in Overtown until his death in 2010 Read More...
Tags: 3rd Avenue StreetScape Project, African American Art, Culmer/Overtown Branch Library, Dixie Park Branch Library, Goodbread Alley mural, Northside Metrorail Station Mural, old main public library Bayfront Park, Overtown, Public Art, Purvis Young, Visions of the Street
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February 6th, 2014
If Jay Gatsby needed a retreat from the lavishly loud parties on Long Island, no other hotel could accommodate him better than the legendary Roney Plaza Hotel on Miami Beach.
The Roney Plaza was located between 23rd and 24th Streets on Collins Avenue. Before the mega hotel industry explosion on Miami Beach, the Roney Plaza was place to be during the winter season each year Read More...
Tags: Burdine's, Collins Avenue, Giralda Tower, Mediterranean Revival, Miami 1920s Land Boom Era, Miami Beach, N.B.T. Roney, Roney Plaza Hotel, Schultze & Weaver
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July 5th, 2013
José Vazquez, curator of "Opa-locka: Mirage City," now on view at HistoryMiami, talks about the exhibition with Marva Hinton of WLRN Radio. His interview, which touches on the development of Opa-locka and Vazquez' almost accidental discovery of the city, also includes photos and additional details Read More...
Tags: 1920s, Arabian Nights, arch, architecture, Bernhardt E. Muller, building, dome, fantasy, film, film archives, Glenn Curtiss, historic, historic preservation, history, HistoryMiami, Kevin Wynn, land boom, Learning From Miami, Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives at Miami Dade College, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami-Dade County, minaret, Moorish Revival, Opa-locka, Opa-Locka: Mirage City, Special Collections, Thief of Bagdad (film), University of Miami Libraries, video, Wolfson Archives
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