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Jan, 2013

Duluth Elite Visit Wells Built Museum

While attending the 2012 AAU DIV -I National Championship Tournament in Orlando, FL, Duluth Elite took time out to visit the historic Wells Built Museum of African American History. Dr. William M. Wells was a prominent African-American physician in Orlando during the first half of the 20th century. He created the South Street Casino to host touring black bands and, since Orlando was rigorously segregated, he opened the Wells’Built Hotel next door to house the musicians. Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, Ivory Joe Hunter, and many other musical greats played the Casino and stayed at the hotel over the years. White Orlando didn’t know what it was missing.The Casino is gone now, but the hotel remains. It has been converted into a modest museum housing memorabilia of Orlando’s African-American community and displays on the Civil Rights movement in Orlando, along with some African art on loan from local collectors. Dr. Well’s home has been moved to the site of the Casino. It is being restored and will open to the public sometime in 2007.

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