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Dorothy Jenkins Fields, Ph.D., Founder

The Black Archives, History and Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc. was founded in 1977 by Dorothy Jenkins Fields, Ph.D. Dr. Fields, historian and archivist, made it the mission of The Black Archives to not only preserve the documentary and photographic history of black South Florida and black Miami, but to enrich the present and protect the future through the revitalization Miami’s former black business and entertainment district, Overtown. Click to learn more