Cab Calloway Performing at the Clover Club in Miami
Title
Cab Calloway Performing at the Clover Club in Miami
Subject
Calloway, Cab
Jazz
Description
Internationally renowned performers toured the Circuit from the 1930s until the 1970s. Clubs in the Jim Crow South often catered to diverse audiences at the peak of jazz’s popularity in the 1940s. This image of Cab Calloway was taken in the Clover Club in the Overtown neighborhood in Miami. Overtown was a thriving African American community in downtown Miami. Clubs like the Harlem Square, Mary Elizabeth Hotel, and Clover Club attracted the biggest names in popular music in addition to smaller acts working the Circuit. Overtown was almost completely destroyed by construction of Interstate 95 in Miami after decades of threats by white business and political leaders in the city.
Creator
Tierney & Killingsworth
Source
http://historymiamiarchives.org/guides/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=253
Publisher
HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center
Date
Circa 1950
Rights
Cite as Miami News Collection, HistoryMiami. 1989-011-19503
Format
Image/jpeg
Type
Image
Coverage
Miami, Florida
Files
Citation
Tierney & Killingsworth, “Cab Calloway Performing at the Clover Club in Miami,” The Sunshine Stroll: Music and Politics on the Florida Chitlin’ Circuit, 1935-1970, accessed April 24, 2024, https://cbcrenshaw.omeka.net/items/show/13.