​MIAMI CARVER

MIAMI

1959  

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And over the causeway, far from the luxurious resorts of segregated South Beach, lay Overtown, the city's lively "colored" district, where many of the nation’s famous and infamous stayed and played.  And on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, sat the Miami Carver Hotel, where for a brief moment at the start of the 1960's, its makeshift rooftop lounge became the epicenter of African American culture and Civil Rights in the American South.

Jazz rhythms percolated, new alliances formed and clandestine meetings posed choices ripe with consequence, as the city prepared for the arrival of the firebrand minister who would usher in a new enlightenment and forever change the world. 

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Miami Carver, is a dynamic, serio-comic, period feature/limited series project, taken from actual accounts, dealing with race relations, generational bonds and coming-of-age at the precipice of this country's most volatile decade, in one of its most exciting cities.