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Modern entrance to the Historic Lyric Theater in downtown Miami, Florida's, Overtown, a largely African-American neighborhood that was called "Colored Town" in the days of rigid Jim Crow segegation regulations, particularly in the American South, from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries

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  1. America
  2. Color
  3. Digital Photographs
  4. Florida
  5. Jim Crow Laws
  6. Lyric Theater
  7. Miami
  8. Miami Dade County
  9. Overtown Neighborhood
  10. Theaters
  11. United States

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