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Bookmark or Share- How I-95 Shattered The World Of Miami's Early Overtown ResidentsHistoric Overtown as a bustling community. Her father, Jerod Hastings Rolle, and his mother — her grandmother — constructed the cozy peach-colored home with swirling concrete pillars in the 1920s.
- Overtown (Miami) - WikipediaOvertown 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 area was once the preeminent and is the historic center for commerce in the black community in Miami and South Florida.
- Historic Overtown: Black history in Miami - Rachel's RuminationsOvertown became the heart of Miami’s Black community in the Jim Crow era and local businesses thrived. There were general stores, a grocery, an ice cream parlor and a drugstore, as well as a pharmacy, a lawyer’s office, a Black newspaper, a funeral parlor, and many more businesses.
- Overtown, Guide to One of Most Historic Areas of Miami ... - MiamiCuratedThings to do, where to eat, where to stay, entertaiment, and an annual not to be missed festival -- the scoop on historic Overtown, Miami.
- Overtown was a flourishing Miami neighborhood. Then came the highways.In the 1940s, the Overtown neighborhood of Miami was home to a thriving African-American community. Black entrepreneurs owned hotels, bars, restaurants, and the Lyric Theater, where white and black fans of jazz would congregate to watch artists such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
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