Mary Athalie Wilkinson was born in Key West, Florida on November 7, 1915. Her family left “the Keys” when she was very young and relocated to Miami, Florida. Athalie graduated from the historical Booker T. Washington High School in 1939 and later attended the New England Institute of Anatomy and…
Miami’s first black millionaire: D. A. Dorsey
Dana Albert Dorsey was born in Quitman, Georgia in 1872. As the son of former slaves, it is believed he attended a Freedmen’s Bureau school, which was established after the Civil War for Blacks. Before moving to Miami, Florida, Dorsey lived in Titusville, Florida employed as a carpenter for the…