The story
The oldest theater in Miami was built by a Black entrepreneur to serve audiences barred from white venues during Jim Crow segregation.
Everything that was here
- 1913–present · still open
Lyric TheaterTheater
The oldest theater in Miami was built by a Black entrepreneur to serve audiences barred from white venues during Jim Crow segregation.
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