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Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States, just northwest of Downtown Miami. Originally called Colored Town in the Jim Crow era of the late 19th through the mid-20th century, the area was once the preeminent and is the historic center for commerce in the black community in Miami and South Florida .
An exhibition at the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum sheds light on the cultural history of Overtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Miami, during the era of legal segregation.
The mile-long linear park would be built under the newly elevated span of Interstate 395 that’s divided Overtown since the 1960s. New highways divided Overtown decades ago. Miami hopes an $82M ...
Map of the city of Miami. Map of Miami neighborhoods. This is a list of neighborhoods in Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.Many of the city's neighborhoods have been renamed, redefined and changed since the city's founding in 1896.
When the smoke had cleared, Overtown was a devastated village, a far cry from the bustling and vibrant community it once was. Gone forever was the drugstore on the southwest corner of Northwest ...
1991 – Overtown, Miami, June 28, Riot in the heavily Black section of Overtown against Cuban Americans. Miami, Florida; 1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York; 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California; 1992 – West Las Vegas riots, April 29, Las Vegas, Nevada
Construction started Monday on a critical housing development to help rejuvenate Overtown that will cater largely to local workers. Also, the project by design sits close to public transit to ...
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