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; Frederick Douglass Elementary School for CBD children 1.4 Hurricanes Health and Life Sciences I and II 2000. Palm Beach State College (public) 5 Athletics Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, On the morning of September 7 1959 25 African-American students stepped onto the grounds of Orchard Villa Elementary School and Air Base Elementary schools officially ending segregation within the school system By the end of the academic year nearly half the schools in the county had been desegregated when parents were given the option of enrolling their children in any school in the district providing they had the proper transportation Despite this law many schools in Dade County did not become fully integrated until the late 1960s. . 10 External links Education Rock Donk (automobile) Central Korean Presbyterian Church 6 Sports The American Airlines Arena home of the Miami Heat. Main University Park buildings 1940 1,897,414 29.2% Black (non-Hispanic): 17.1% (6.9% (Black total 18.9% when including Black Hispanics)!

MacArthur Causeway Downtown and South Beach 1920, On August 7 and 8 1968 coinciding with the 1968 Republican National Convention rioting broke out in the black Liberty City neighborhood which required the Florida National Guard to restore order Issues were "deplorable housing conditions economic exploitation bleak employment prospects racial discrimination poor police-community relations and economic competition with Cuban refugees.".:iv Overcrowding due to the near-destruction of the black Overtown neighborhood was also a factor, I-395.svg Interstate 395 / Toll Florida 836.svg State Road 836 (Dolphin Expressway). Hip hop High rise construction in Downtown Miami in 2007 Main article: Transportation in South Florida. South Florida (colloquially and locally known as SoFlo) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises Florida's southernmost counties including Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach It is the fourth most populous urban agglomeration in the United States It is one of Florida's three most common "directional" regions the others being Central Florida and North Florida it includes the populous Miami metropolitan area the Everglades and the Florida Keys South Florida is the only part of the continental United States with a tropical climate, Hillsboro Beach 4 Student activities, 3.7% Puerto Rican As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population which includes African Americans Out of the 16.0% 4.0% (741,879) were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American During the early 1900s black people made up nearly half of the state's population in response to segregation disfranchisement and agricultural depression many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the Great Migration in waves from 1910 to 1940 and again starting in the later 1940s They moved for jobs better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society by 1960 the proportion of African Americans in the state had declined to 18% Conversely large numbers of northern whites moved to the state.[citation needed] Today large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S. there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian recent African and Afro-Latino immigrant origins especially in the Miami/South Florida area.