On the morning of September 7 1959 25 African-American students stepped onto the grounds of Orchard Villa Elementary School and Air Base Elementary schools officially ending segregation within the school system By the end of the academic year nearly half the schools in the county had been desegregated when parents were given the option of enrolling their children in any school in the district providing they had the proper transportation Despite this law many schools in Dade County did not become fully integrated until the late 1960s, Southside Elementary School for Brickell children, Contents 1910 11,933 140.8% The site of the campus was originally used for a general aviation airport called Tamiami Airport (not to be confused with Kendall-Tamiami Airport) which was in operation from the 1940s until 1967 the airport had three runways and was used for pilot training among other purposes Construction on the FIU campus began in 1965 and the airport closed in 1969 At the time very little was located around FIU and the campus was called University Park as Miami grew west the area came to be known as University Park after the university's campus name. ; Publication of a Spanish-language supplemental insert named El Herald began in 1976 it was renamed El Nuevo Herald in 1987 and in 1998 became an independent publication. History I-75.svg Interstate 75, A satellite image of the Everglades taken in March 2019, In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation!
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