Dana Albert Dorsey
(1868-1940)
businessman, banker, philanthropist, and hotelier
Died aged c. 72
Dana A. Dorsey, Miami’s first black millionaire, was born in Quitman, Georgia in 1868. He moved to Miami in the 1890s. He was an organizer of the Mount Zion Baptist Church and later owned the Negro Savings Bank, two hotels, and a portfolio of rental properties in Miami and in Broward County. He donated land in Liberty City for a high school built in 1937 and named for him. He also donated the land on which the Dorsey Memorial Library was built. Dana A. Dorsey died in 1940.
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Dana A. Dorsey [full inscription unknown]
Dorsey Memorial Library, 100 Northwest 17th Street, Miami, FL, United States where they was