Segregation Walls Are A Sad Reminder Of South Florida's Jim Crow Past

By Hank Tester, CBS Miami

February 16, 2022

Painted an ugly yellow, a wall that stretches along NW 12th Avenue and NW 63nd Street to NW 64th Street is a direct link to Miami’s Jim Crow segregation past.

In Miami, a typical southern city, Black people whose labor built the city, lived in concentrated, crammed “Colored Town,” what we now call “Overtown.”

The solution in the late 1930s?

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