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9 Notes Rock History, Main article: Florida Reef, Maintenance facility Florida attracted numerous Africans and African Americans from adjacent British colonies who sought freedom from slavery in 1738 Governor Manuel de Montiano established Fort Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St Augustine a fortified town for escaped slaves to whom Montiano granted citizenship and freedom in return for their service in the Florida militia and which became the first free black settlement legally sanctioned in North America; I-95.svg Interstate 95, High rise construction in Downtown Miami in 2007. Twentieth century Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education Bilingual education is offered in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese M-DCPS is the only school district in Florida to offer bilingual education in Mandarin, The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami the largest transport in civilian history Unlike the previous exodus of the 1960s most of the Cuban refugees arriving were poor some having been released from prisons or mental institutions to make the trip During this time many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city often referred to as the "white flight" in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white but by 1990 it was only about 10% non-Hispanic white. Miami Circle Brickell Language and national origin FIU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Florida's primary graduate research universities awarding over 3,400 graduate and professional degrees annually the university offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools FIU offers many graduate programs including architecture business administration engineering law and medicine offering 81 master's degrees 34 doctoral degrees and 3 professional degrees. American settlers began to establish cotton plantations in north Florida which required numerous laborers which they supplied by buying slaves in the domestic market by 1860 Florida had only 140,424 people of whom 44% were enslaved There were fewer than 1,000 free African Americans before the American Civil War.

. County Court Judge of Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit See also: Pangaea Ultima Elementary schools; . Sun Country Airlines Seasonal: Minneapolis/St Paul, 5 Economy Brickell Plaza Mini Park Brickell, Entertainment and performing arts. Miami Herald's Silver Knight Awards Contents FIU walkways, Education The metropolitan area is served by three major commercial airports These airports combine to make the fourth largest domestic origin and destination market in the United States after New York City Los Angeles and Chicago. Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Miami. According to the U.S Census Bureau in 2012 Miami had the fourth highest percentage of family incomes below the federal poverty line out of all large cities in the United States behind Detroit Michigan Cleveland Ohio and Cincinnati Ohio respectively Miami is also one of the very few cities in the U.S where the local government has gone bankrupt in 2001 on the other hand Miami has won accolades for its environmental policies: in 2008 it was ranked as "America's Cleanest City" according to Forbes for its year-round good air quality vast green spaces clean drinking water clean streets and citywide recycling programs.