Desi Arnaz was a multi-talented singer, musician, and actor, most actively producing music and television throughout the 1930s – 1950s. Some of his... Read More »
Lucille Ball was an actress, comedian, and model, who rose to fame for her role as Lucy in the I Love Lucy television... Read More »
José Agustín Balseiro was a poet, writer, and scholar of Latin American Studies and Hispanic Literature. From 1946 - 1967, was a professor at the... Read More »
Tallulah Bankhead was a stage and screen actress who began her career as a teenager. Some of her notable work includes Lifeboat (1944), A Royal... Read More »
Born in New York, actor, musician, and activist, Harry Belafonte’s music blends Caribbean folk music with American pop sounds. Belafonte, who is... Read More »
Tally Brown was a singer and actress who also appeared in early works by Andy Warhol. She and Ruth Greenfield founded the Fine Arts Conservatory in... Read More »
Katherine Dunham was a dancer and anthropologist whose work was informed by American and Caribbean culture. She created a signature dance and... Read More »
Ella Fitzgerald was born in Virginia and began singing in 1934 after competing in an Amateur Night competition at the Apollo Theater in New... Read More »
Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, and spent the first 40 years of his life working without much recognition. However, he did eventually... Read More »
Ruth Greenfield is a musician, teacher, and activist. In 1951 she founded the Fine Arts Conservatory, which according to the New York Times, was... Read More »
Syd Hoff was born and raised in New York City. He enjoyed a successful career as a cartoonist for many publications and King Features Syndicate. In... Read More »
Billie Holiday, nicknamed Lady Day, was born in Philadelphia in 1915, and raised in Baltimore. To this day she is one of the best known singers of... Read More »
Langston Hughes was a prolific poet, writer, and playwright known for his use of rhythm and language which took cues from everyday life as well as... Read More »
Zora Neale Hurston was a writer, poet, dramatist, and anthropologist. Her time in Miami and South Florida was marked by her work with the Works... Read More »
Marion Post Wolcott produced thousands of photographs while working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during 1938 - 1942. Born in New... Read More »
Elvis Presley was a singer and actor who became known as “The King.” Presley music and performance on stage in the 1950s marked a... Read More »
Gleason Waite Romer was a photographer who documented South Florida from 1925 - 1950s.... Read More »
Roberta Sherwood was a singer who began performing at an early age with her father's vaudeville group. She moved to Miami with her husband, Broadway... Read More »
Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a writer, researcher, and activist who penned several books from her home in Coconut... Read More »
Sophie Tucker, born in Tsarist, Russsia, was a singer, vaudeville performer, and screen actor. Tucker got her start singing in her family's kosher... Read More »
Tennessee Williams was a writer and playwright best known for A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie. He owned a... Read More »
Bunny Yeager is former pin-up model turned photographer, who moved to Miami with her family when she was 17. Yeager is credited with bringing Bettie... Read More »