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Overtown (Miami)

Index Overtown (Miami)

Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States, just northwest of Downtown Miami. [1]

104 relations: African Americans, Area codes 305 and 786, Billie Holiday, Booker T. Washington High School (Miami), Broadway theatre, Cab Calloway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Caribbean Studies, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Coconut Grove, Colored, Community gardening, Community organizing, Coral Gables, Florida, Count Basie, Culmer station, Cynthia Stafford, D. A. Dorsey House, Da Capo Press, Dana A. Dorsey, David Beckham, Deep South, Democratic Party (United States), Demonym, Eastern Time Zone, Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel, Ella Fitzgerald, Environmental racism, Fisher Island, Florida, Florida, Florida East Coast Railway, Florida House of Representatives, Florida land boom of the 1920s, Florida Senate, Florida State Road 836, Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Frederica Wilson, Gentrification of Miami, Ghetto, Greater Bethel AME Church, Greater Downtown Miami, Henry Flagler, Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station, Interstate 95 in Florida, Interstate Highway System, Jackie Robinson, Jim Crow laws, Joe Louis, John Culmer, Josephine Baker, ..., Key West, Larcenia Bullard, Liberty City (Miami), Liberty Square (Miami), List of neighborhoods in Miami, Lyric Theater (Miami), Main Street, Metrorail (Miami-Dade County), Miami, Miami Arena, Miami Beach, Florida, Miami metropolitan area, Miami MLS team, Miami River (Florida), Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami–Dade County, Florida, Middle class, Midtown Interchange, Mount Zion Baptist Church (Miami, Florida), Municipal corporation, N. D. B. Connolly, Nat King Cole, National Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami, Nightclub, Palm Beach County, Florida, Permaculture, Piscataway, New Jersey, Post–World War II economic expansion, Purvis Young, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Royal Palm Hotel (Miami), Rutgers University Press, Secondary school, Separate but equal, Social organization, Southern United States, St. John's Baptist Church (Miami, Florida), Standard Oil, Taylor & Francis, The Miami News, Transit-oriented development, U.S. Route 441 in Florida, United Kingdom, United States, United States House of Representatives, Upper class, Urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, Washington, D.C., White Americans, Working class, ZIP Code, Zora Neale Hurston. Expand index (54 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Area codes 305 and 786

Area code 305 is the area code for all of Miami, Florida, Miami-Dade County, and the part of Monroe County in the Florida Keys in the United States.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Booker T. Washington High School (Miami)

Booker T. Washington High School is a secondary school located at 1200 NW 6th Avenue in Miami, Florida, United States.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Caribbean Studies

Caribbean Studies (Études caribéennes) is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2003 by Pascal Saffache.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Coconut Grove

Coconut Grove is the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Colored

Colored is an ethnic descriptor historically used in the United States (predominantly during the Jim Crow era) and the United Kingdom.

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Community gardening

A community garden is a single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.

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Community organizing

Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.

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Coral Gables, Florida

Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Culmer station

Culmer station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit system just northeast of the Spring Garden neighborhood of Miami, Florida, near the Midtown Interchange.

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Cynthia Stafford

Cynthia A. Stafford (born July 11, 1967) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 109th District, which includes northeastern Miami-Dade County, since 2010.

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D. A. Dorsey House

The D. A. Dorsey House is the historic home of D. A. Dorsey in Miami, Florida.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Dana A. Dorsey

Dana Albert "D. A." Dorsey (1872–1940) was a businessman, banker, and philanthropist who became one of the first African–American millionaires in Florida and the American South.

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David Beckham

David Robert Joseph Beckham (born 2 May 1975) is an English retired professional footballer.

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Deep South

The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Demonym

A demonym (δῆμος dẽmos "people, tribe", ὄόνομα ónoma "name") is a word that identifies residents or natives of a particular place, which is derived from the name of that particular place.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel

The Eden Roc Miami Beach Resort is a resort hotel at 4525 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Environmental racism

Environmental racism is a term used to describe environmental injustice within a racialized context.

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Fisher Island, Florida

Fisher Island is a census-designated place of metropolitan Miami, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida East Coast Railway

The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Florida House of Representatives

The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.

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Florida land boom of the 1920s

The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble, which burst in 1925, leaving behind entire new cities and the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County, Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay, or Boca Raton as Addison Mizner planned it to be.

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Florida Senate

The Florida Senate is the upper house of the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.

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Florida State Road 836

State Road 836 (SR 836), locally known as the Dolphin Expressway or the Dolphin Tollway, is a six-lane divided expressway, with the westernmost being an all electronic tollway, and the easternmost of SR 836 between Interstate 95 (I-95) and SR A1A is signed Interstate 395.

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Fontainebleau Miami Beach

The Fontainebleau Miami Beach (also known as Fontainebleau Hotel) is a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

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Frederica Wilson

Frederica Smith Wilson (born Frederica Patricia Smith; November 5, 1942) is a politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2011.

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Gentrification of Miami

The gentrification of Miami is the process taking place in which Miami is transitioning to appeal to a more typical, middle and upper-class taste.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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Greater Bethel AME Church

The Greater Bethel AME Church is a historic church in Miami, Florida.

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Greater Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami is an urban city center, based around the Central Business District of Miami, Florida, United States.

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Henry Flagler

Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, first based in Ohio.

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Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station

Historic Overtown / Lyric Theatre station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit system in northwest Downtown, Miami, Florida.

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Interstate 95 in Florida

Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main Interstate Highway on the east coast of the United States; its southernmost segment serves the Atlantic coast of Florida.

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Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.

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Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.

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Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

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Joe Louis

Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951.

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John Culmer

Father John Edwin Culmer (May 22, 1891 – June 18, 1963) was a minister and leader during the Civil Rights Movement, most notable for his work in Miami, Florida, United States.

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Larcenia Bullard

Larcenia J. Bullard (July 21, 1947 – March 16, 2013) was an American politician and a Democratic member of the Florida State Senate, representing the 39th District, which included parts of Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties, from 2002 to 2012.

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Liberty City (Miami)

Liberty City is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, United States.

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Liberty Square (Miami)

Liberty Square (colloquially referred to as the Pork & Beans) is a 753-unit Miami-Dade public housing apartment complex in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

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List of neighborhoods in Miami

This is a list of neighborhoods in Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Lyric Theater (Miami)

The Lyric Theater is a historic theater in Miami, Florida.

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Main Street

Main Street is a generic phrase used to denote a primary retail street of a village, town or small city in many parts of the world.

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Metrorail (Miami-Dade County)

Metrorail, colloquially called the Metro, is the heavy rail rapid transit system of Miami and Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miami Arena

Miami Arena was an indoor arena located in Miami, Florida.

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Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Miami metropolitan area

The Miami metropolitan area, also known as the Greater Miami Area or South Florida, is the 73rd largest metropolitan area in the world and the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Miami MLS team

The Miami MLS team is a professional soccer team to be based in Miami, Florida.

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Miami River (Florida)

The Miami River is a river in the United States state of Florida that drains out of the Everglades and runs through the city of Miami, including Downtown.

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Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County, in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Miami–Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Middle class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.

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Midtown Interchange

The Midtown Interchange, located in the Civic Center and Overtown neighborhoods of Miami, Florida, USA, is the convergence of three major motorways: I-95, I-395 (which connects to the MacArthur Causeway to the east), and the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836).

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Mount Zion Baptist Church (Miami, Florida)

The Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historic church in Miami, Florida.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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N. D. B. Connolly

Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly (b. Nov. 6, 1977) is an American historian and professor.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami, Florida.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County is a county in the state of Florida that is directly north of Broward County.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.

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Piscataway, New Jersey

Piscataway is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Post–World War II economic expansion

The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom, the long boom, and the Golden Age of Capitalism, was a period of strong economic growth beginning after World War II and ending with the 1973–75 recession.

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Purvis Young

Purvis Young (February 4, 1943 – April 20, 2010) was an American artist from the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Royal Palm Hotel (Miami)

The Royal Palm Hotel was a large resort hotel built by railroad magnate Henry Flagler in Miami, Florida.

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Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Separate but equal

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted during the Reconstruction Era, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all citizens.

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Social organization

In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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St. John's Baptist Church (Miami, Florida)

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Standard Oil

Standard Oil Co.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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The Miami News

The Miami News was an evening newspaper in Miami, Florida.

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Transit-oriented development

In urban planning, a transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport.

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U.S. Route 441 in Florida

U.S. Route 441 (US 441) in Florida is a north–south United States Highway.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Upper class

The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom, urban renewal or urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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White Americans

White Americans are Americans who are descendants from any of the white racial groups of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or in census statistics, those who self-report as white based on having majority-white ancestry.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtown_(Miami)

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