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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...
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  • site in Miami's Overtown (2015–16). Beckham announced in June 2019 that Freedom Park has a proposed launch date 2022. On April 28, 2022, the Miami City Council...
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  • up overtown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Overtown may refer to: Overtown (Miami), a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States Overtown, Lancashire...
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    Historic Overtown / Lyric Theatre station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit system in northwest Downtown, Miami, Florida. The station is located...
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  • their target size of around 44,000 seats was too big for MLS. Overtown Overtown (Central Miami) On December 4, 2015, Beckham's group announced it had secured...
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    legitimate theater in Miami. Located west of Miami's downtown business district, it is a central focus for the Historic Overtown Folklife Village and a...
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    east, the Health District and Overtown to its west, and Coconut Grove to its south. Downtown Miami is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, the nation's...
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    stations from Dadeland South to Overtown (now "Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre") was completed with the construction of the Miami River Bridge. Revenue operation...
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    The northern side of Miami also has notable African-American and Caribbean immigrant communities, including Little Haiti, Overtown (home of the Lyric Theater)...
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  • The 1982 Overtown riot was a period of civil unrest in Miami, Florida, United States, from December 28 to 30, 1982. The riot was caused by the shooting...
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    walking distance. It is also within walking distance from the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station. The arena has 939 parking spaces, with those spaces...
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    The Miami metropolitan area is a coastal metropolitan area in southeastern Florida. It is the ninth-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the...
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  • the streets, particularly Miami's historically black neighborhoods such as Liberty City, Goulds, and Overtown". Despite Miami bass never having consistent...
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    Liberty City and Overtown. National exposure continued with the popularity of nationally broadcast programs such as the NBC crime drama Miami Vice, which brought...
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    "Colored Town" (today's Overtown). Miami experienced a very rapid growth up to World War II. In 1900, 1,681 people lived in Miami; in 1910, there were 5...
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  • Crow laws barred black Americans in the Miami area from living in much of the area outside of Overtown. Overtown, then called Colored Town, grew to be one...
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  • Huffington Postt, McDuffie Riots: Eerie Scene From Miami Race Riot Of 1980, 05/29/2013. "Overtown Violence Worst Since Liberty City". UPI. Retrieved 2020-01-02...
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  • and since he could not celebrate on Miami Beach due to the segregation laws of the time, he heads to Overtown, Miami, with his colleagues: Malcolm X, Sam...
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    Haiti Upper Eastside Central District Allapattah Overtown Wynwood Edgewater Greater Downtown Miami South District Flagami Little Havana Coral Way Coconut...
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  • and evidence tampering, a riot broke out in the Black neighborhoods of Overtown and Liberty City on the night of May 17. Riots continued until May 20,...
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    Dadeland South station in Kendall to Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami. On December 17, 1984, the second segment...
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  • Dana A. Dorsey (category Businesspeople from Miami)
    Boulevard Dana Dorsey Boulevard, looking north, Miami, Overtown Dana Dorsey House in Overtown Miami Dana Dorsey Memorial Park - Baseball Field Dana Dorsey...
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    south end of MiamiCentral via a pedestrian bridge over NW 3rd Street. The Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Metromover station and the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre...
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    1200 NW 6th Avenue in Miami, Florida, United States. It is located in the Overtown neighborhood, and serves families in the Overtown, Downtown, Park West...
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    Metrorail stop at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station just across the street (once known as Overtown/Arena station). Miami-Dade city buses also service...
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  • assisting home ownership by locals. Overtown was established as the central African-American neighborhood in segregated Miami during the Jim Crow era. Originally...
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    Tower/Formerly Miami News and Metropolis Building". Freedom Tower is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Government Center Station and the Historic Overtown/Lyric...
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  • Washington, D.C. 1991 – Overtown, Miami, June 28, Riot in the heavily Black section of Overtown against Cuban Americans. Miami, Florida 1991 – Crown Heights...
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    Booker T. Washington Senior High School building opened in what is now the Overtown district. It was the only secondary black high school at the time in South...
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  • The Power.”. In 1989, "Fight the Power" was played in the streets of Overtown, Miami, in celebration of the guilty verdict of police officer William Lozano...
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