Blacks visitors, who used to stay in the hotels in Colored Town, started staying in large hotels in Miami Beach. Blacks took their money and investment to elsewhere. In early 1960s, the construction of I-95 and I-395 became a huge challenge for blacks in Overtown. Although an alternative plan was constructing the highway along with the railway, it was rejected. To reserve enough land for the expansion of downtown area and to move black community to other areas, the I-95 crossed through Overtown directly, separated black community, destroyed housing for thousands of blacks, and forced a large number of blacks who made Overtown home moved out of …show more content…
Miami became a perfect place to get away from Castro for many wealthy and educated Cubans including doctors, lawyers, teachers, and businesspeople. The government provided a lot of help for them and they fit into the south Florida seamlessly. In the 1980s, the second wave of Cubans came in, but they were more impoverished. Thus, black community became more difficult as some jobs were taken by Cubans. As Dorsey Fields said, blacks went from second class to third class citizens overnight. Also, Haitians came to Miami in a large number without any help from the federal government in 1970s. Although blacks treated Haitians in a way that white people treated blacks, blacks stood with Haitians in a way because of the similar situation of Haitians and Blacks in terms of social status, economy, and discrimination by both white people and