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ABOUT THIS PROJECTMiami Stories is part of Make Miami History Now, a project of the Historical Museum of South Florida and The Miami Herald, author/historian Arva Moore Parks, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, National Conference on Citizenship Chaiman Michael Weiser, and Comcast.
It was August 1957 and my mother and I had driven for three days in her 1956, blue-and-white Mercury. A drive that took us from the cold winters of the Catskills in New York to Miami in search of warm weather and a job prospect for my stepfather.
The house stood amid the pine and oak, far removed and away from what might pass for civilization in middle Georgia. It sat battered by time, the hot Georgia summer sun, and the harsh winter wind. The porch was falling down, and sagged at the front door.
Howard and Iris Kaplan both had early ties to the Miami area, although they were both born and raised in Chicago.
Howard's parents brought him to South Beach in his teen years during the winter. His sister couldn't take the cold weather; she had a heart condition, and in the 1930s, there was no surgery to help her. Iris had an aunt, Aunt Mona, who lived in Miami Beach.We were sponsored into the United States by a doctor in Detroit.
My dad was from Sweden and didn't speak English very well. My mom was born in Trinidad to a Barbados family. I was born in Barbados.I was born in 1924 on Flagler Street and 57th Court. The house I was born in still stands. My father w...
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Josie Smith came to Miami in 1925 from New York City. Today, she enjoys her life as a South Miami resident.
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My maternal grandfather, Henry E.S. Reeves, arrived in Miami in the spring of 1919 on his way to New York t...
Her family's journey from Cuba was a study in sacrifice but led to great opportunities for an educator.
In 1955, a 21-year-old Swiss woman, Margrith Lübke, traveled to North America to satisfy a childhood fantas...
Every day I wake up with a spirit of excitement and anticipation of what the day may bring, in large part b...
My maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is...
Somewhere in the middle of 1951, my father, Cpl. Norman Segermeister, emerged from his commitment to the U....
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