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Miami’s First Black Police Chief
Clarence Dickson was the first black graduate of the City of Miami's police academy and he rose to become Miami’s first black police chief in 1985.
Miami And County School Board Destroyed A Black Community To Build A Whites Only School
Railroad Shop Colored Addition, established around 1917 in modern-day Allapattah was a thriving Black community until it was destroyed.
The taking of Black-owned land is a common story throughout the history of the United States. The City of Miami and the Miami-Dade County School Board intervened on behalf of their white constituents to take Black-owned land through eminent domain, obliterating Railroad Shop.
Read and listen to a 19 minute podcast about Railroadshop via WLRN.