# Timeline of Miami

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The following is a [timeline](/source/%3ACategory%3ATimelines_of_cities_in_the_United_States) of the [history](/source/History_of_Miami) of the [city](/source/Administrative_divisions_of_Florida) of [Miami](/source/Miami%2C_Florida) in [Miami-Dade County](/source/Miami-Dade_County), [Florida](/source/Florida), United States.
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==19th century==
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* 1870 – [William Brickell](/source/William_Brickell) establishes a trading post on the south side of the Miami River.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1880 – Population: county 100.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1884 – The first hotel, The Peacock Inn, is established in Coconut Grove.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1886 
** [Ralph Munroe](/source/Ralph_Munroe) builds a home on the bay in Coconut Grove.
** [Kirk Munroe](/source/Kirk_Munroe) establishes a home in Coconut Grove. 
* 1889 – Teaching begins in the [first school building](/source/First_Coconut_Grove_School) in Coconut Grove.
* 1891 – [Julia Tuttle](/source/Julia_Tuttle) moves to Miami.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1895 – The first public library is established in Coconut Grove by the ladies of the Pine Needles Club.
* 1896
** Miami [incorporated](/source/Local_government_in_the_United_States);<ref>{{citation |url=https://localgov.fsu.edu/readings_papers/Boundaries%20of%20Government/Munincipal_Incorporations_in_Florida.pdf |year=2001 |title=Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida |author=Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations |location=Tallahassee |series=LCIR Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428092419/https://localgov.fsu.edu/readings_papers/Boundaries%20of%20Government/Munincipal_Incorporations_in_Florida.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-28 |author-link=Florida Legislature }}</ref> [John B. Reilly](/source/John_B._Reilly) becomes mayor.{{sfn|Blackman|1921}}
** [Florida East Coast Railway](/source/Florida_East_Coast_Railway) ([Jacksonville](/source/Jacksonville%2C_Florida)-Miami) arrives in Miami.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
** ''Miami Metropolis'' newspaper begins publication.<ref name=LOC>{{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Florida&county=&city=Miami&terms=&frequency=&language=&ethnicity=&labor=&material_type=&lccn=&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=October 16, 2013 }}</ref>
** Biscayne Hotel built.{{sfn|Blackman|1921}}
* 1897
** [Royal Palm Hotel](/source/Royal_Palm_Hotel_(Miami)) in business.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = Rand, McNally & Co. |date = 1899 |location = Chicago and New York |title = Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/randmcnallycosha07chic#page/184/mode/2up |chapter=Florida }}</ref>
** [City of Miami Cemetery](/source/City_of_Miami_Cemetery) established.
* 1898 
** [Burdines](/source/Burdines) in business.
** [David Fairchild](/source/David_Fairchild) establishes the [USDA Plant Introduction Garden](/source/Chapman_Field_(Miami)).
* 1899
**[Dade County](/source/Miami-Dade_County%2C_Florida) seat relocated to Miami from [Juno](/source/Juno%2C_Florida).{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
**Telephone service begins in Miami.<ref>{{cite news |last= Chapman |first= Arthur E. |date= 1991 |title= Phones started ringing in Miami in 1899 |url= http://historymiamiarchives.org/pdfs/sfh-1991-4.pdf |work= South Florida History Magazine |volume= 18 |issue= 4 |pages= 27–28 |via= [HistoryMiami](/source/HistoryMiami)}}</ref>
* 1900
** Flagler Public Library, Miami Board of Trade, and Woman's Club founded.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
** Population: 1,681.

==20th century==
===1900s-1940s===
* 1902 – Carpenters Local 993 labor union established.{{sfn|Castillo|2004}}
* 1903 
** [John Sewell](/source/John_Sewell_(Miami)) becomes mayor.
** [Ransom Everglades School](/source/Ransom_Everglades_School) is established in Coconut Grove.
** ''[The Miami Herald](/source/The_Miami_Herald)'' newspaper begins publication.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1906
** Streetcars begin operating.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
** Automobile parade.{{sfn|Blackman|1921}}
* 1909
** City Hall built.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
** [Lummus Park](/source/Lummus_Park%2C_Miami) opens.
* 1910 – Population: 5,471; county 11,933.
* 1912 – Airport established near Miami.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1913
** Bridge to Miami Beach constructed.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
** [Lyric Theater](/source/Lyric_Theater_(Miami)) opens.
* 1914 – Construction of [Vizcaya](/source/Villa_Vizcaya) begins.
* 1915
** Miami Chamber of Commerce established.<ref name=bachin-ww1 />
** Town of [Miami Beach](/source/Miami_Beach%2C_Florida) incorporated near Miami.
* 1916 – David Fairchild establishes [The Kampong](/source/The_Kampong), his winter home in Coconut Grove.
* 1917 – Elser Pier opens.{{sfn|Bush|1999}}
* 1918 – Airdrome Theatre and Strand Theatre open.<ref name=cinema>{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/florida/miami?status=all|title=Movie Theaters in Miami, FL |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=October 16, 2013 }}</ref> 
* 1919 
** Coconut Grove is incorporated.{{sfn|Blackman|1921}}
** Great Miami Employers' Association established.<ref>{{citation |title=Miami Daily Metropolis 
|date= March 15, 1921 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19210315&id=wAMtAAAAIBAJ&pg=4127,6537490 }}</ref>
** Seybold Canal Bridge built (approximate date).<ref name=bridges2012 />
* 1920
** [Universal Negro Improvement Association](/source/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association) chapter established.{{sfn|Shell-Weiss|2005}}
** Population: 29,549; county 42,753.
[[File:Seybold Jewelry Building.jpg|alt=Seybold Jewelry Building Downtown Miami|thumb|The [Seybold Building](/source/Seybold_Building) in Miami. The first phase of construction was completed in 1921.]]
* 1921
** [Commission-manager](/source/Council%E2%80%93manager_government) form of government adopted.{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
** WQAM [radio](/source/List_of_radio_stations_in_Florida) begins broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1939 />
** Tamiami Canal [Bridge](/source/List_of_movable_bridges_in_Florida) built.<ref name=bridges2012 />
* 1923 – ''Miami Times'' newspaper begins publication.<ref name=LOC />
* 1924
** [Buena Vista](/source/Buena_Vista_(Miami)) becomes part of Miami.
** Miami River Canal Swing Bridge built.<ref name=bridges2012>{{citation |title=Historic Highway Bridges of Florida |publisher= [Florida Department of Transportation](/source/Florida_Department_of_Transportation) |url= http://www.fdot.gov/emo/pubs/bridgebk.pdf |year=2012 }}</ref>
** Fotosho Theatre opens.<ref name=cinema />
* 1925
** [Allapattah](/source/Allapattah), [Coconut Grove](/source/Coconut_Grove),{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}} [Lemon City](/source/Lemon_City), [Silver Bluff](/source/Silver_Bluff_(Miami)), and [West Little River](/source/West_Little_River%2C_Florida) become part of Miami.
** [Bayfront Park](/source/Bayfront_Park) opens.
** Towns of [Coral Gables](/source/Coral_Gables%2C_Florida) and [Hialeah](/source/Hialeah%2C_Florida) incorporated near Miami.
** [University of Miami](/source/University_of_Miami) established in [Coral Gables](/source/Coral_Gables%2C_Florida).
* 1926
** January 10: ''[Prinz Valdemar](/source/Prinz_Valdemar)'' ship sinks offshore.
** September: [Hurricane](/source/1926_Miami_hurricane).
** WIOD radio begins broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1939>{{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/218/mode/1up |chapter= Florida }}</ref>
** [Player's State Theater](/source/Coconut_Grove_Playhouse) built.<ref name=LHAT>{{cite web |url=http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx |title=Historic Theatre Inventory |location=Maryland, USA |publisher=League of Historic American Theatres |access-date=October 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721130121/http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx |archive-date=July 21, 2013 }}</ref>
** [Booker T. Washington High School](/source/Booker_T._Washington_High_School_(Miami)), [Olympia Theater](/source/Olympia_Theater_and_Office_Building), and [Tower Theater](/source/Tower_Theater_(Miami%2C_Florida)) open.
** [Town of Miami Shores](/source/North_Miami%2C_Florida) incorporated near Miami.
** [Wometco](/source/Wometco_Enterprises) – first movie theater, the Capital, opens.
* 1927
** Flagler Theater opens.<ref name=cinema />
** [E. G. Sewell](/source/E._G._Sewell) becomes mayor.
** [Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church](/source/Greater_Bethel_AME_Church_(Miami%2C_Florida)) built.
** ''Jewish Floridian'' newspaper begins publication.
* 1928
** [Pan American Field](/source/Miami_International_Airport) (airfield) begins operating.
** [Dade County Agricultural High](/source/Miami_Edison_High_School) school built.
** [Al Capone](/source/Al_Capone) buys a home in Miami Beach.
* 1929 - [Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store](/source/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Department_Store_(Miami%2C_Florida)) opens.<ref name=bachin-ww1>{{cite web |work=Travel, Tourism, & Urban Growth in Greater Miami |editor=Robin F. Bachin  |publisher=University of Miami |title=Miami Timeline: WWI-1930s |url= http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital/wwi.php }} (published circa 2006?)</ref>
* 1930
** Miami Civic Center opens.<ref name=bachin-ww1 />
** [Population](/source/1930_United_States_census): 110,637.<ref name=census1998 />
* 1933
** February 15: Chicago mayor [Anton Cermak](/source/Anton_Cermak) killed by anarchist in [Bayfront Park](/source/Bayfront_Park).
** [E. G. Sewell](/source/E._G._Sewell) becomes mayor again.
** [Ryder](/source/Ryder), the truck leasing company, founded in Miami.
* 1935
** January 1: [Orange Bowl](/source/Orange_Bowl) football contest begins.
** November: [Hurricane](/source/1935_Yankee_hurricane).{{sfn|Federal Writers’ Project|1941|p=180}}
* 1936 – [Parrot Jungle](/source/Jungle_Island) established.<ref name="Kisling2001">{{cite book|editor=Vernon N. Kisling, Jr. |title=Zoo and Aquarium History|year= 2001|publisher=[CRC Press](/source/CRC_Press) |location=USA |isbn=978-1-4200-3924-5 |chapter=Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list) |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ulbMBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA375 }}</ref>
* 1937 – [Burdine Stadium](/source/Miami_Orange_Bowl), and [Liberty Square](/source/Liberty_Square_(Miami)) (housing complex){{sfn|Mohl|2001}} open.
* 1938 – [Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden](/source/Fairchild_Tropical_Botanic_Garden) opens to the public.
* 1939 – [E. G. Sewell](/source/E._G._Sewell) becomes mayor yet again.
* 1940
** [Historical Association of Southern Florida](/source/Historical_Museum_of_Southern_Florida) established.<ref name=aaslh2002>{{cite book |title=Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada |year=2002 |edition=15th |isbn=0759100020 |author= American Association for State and Local History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LY0Q5Rv4O3YC }}</ref>
** [Population](/source/1940_United_States_Census): 172,172;<ref name=census1998 /> county 267,739.
* 1941 – Dorsey Memorial Library opens.
* 1942
** May: ''Portero del Llano'' ship sinks offshore during [World War II](/source/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II).<ref name=bachin-ww2>{{cite web |work=Travel, Tourism, & Urban Growth in Greater Miami |editor=Robin F. Bachin |publisher=University of Miami |title=Miami Timeline: WWII-1950s |url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital/wwii.php }} (published circa 2006?)</ref>
** [Submarine Chaser Training Center](/source/Submarine_Chaser_Training_Center) established.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Submarine Chaser Training Center: Downtown Miami's International Graduate School Of Anti-Submarine Warfare During World War II |author= Charles W. Rice |journal=Tequesta |volume=64 |issn= 0363-3705 |publisher=Historical Association of Southern Florida |url= http://www.historymiamiarchives.org/pdfs/Tequesta2010-p5-58.pdf |year= 2010 }} {{free access}}</ref>
* 1943 – [Urban League](/source/Urban_League) of Greater Miami established.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.miamiurbanleague.org/about-2/ |title=About Us |location=Miami |publisher=Urban League of Greater Miami |access-date=October 16, 2013}}</ref>
* 1946 – [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People](/source/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People) branch established in Liberty City.{{sfn|Rose|2007}}
* 1948 – Coconut Grove Citizens Committee for Slum Clearance{{sfn|Rose|2007}} and [Civil Rights Congress](/source/Civil_Rights_Congress) chapter organized.{{sfn|Mohl|1999}}
* 1949 – WTVJ ([television](/source/List_of_television_stations_in_Florida)) begins broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1960 />

===1950s-1970s===
* 1950 – [Population](/source/1950_United_States_census): 249,276;<ref name=census1998 /> county 495,084.
* 1952 – [Museum of Science and Natural History](/source/Miami_Science_Museum) opens on Bayshore Drive.
* 1953 
** ''[Diario Las Américas](/source/Diario_Las_Am%C3%A9ricas)'' Spanish-language newspaper begins publication.<ref name=LOC /><ref name=Kanellos2000>{{Citation |publisher = Arte Publico Press |isbn = 1558852530 |location = Houston, Texas |title = Hispanic Periodicals in the United States, Origins to 1960 |author1 = Nicolás Kanellos |author2=Helvetia Martell |date = 2000 |chapter=Chronological Index |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YTwjZaJO_4cC&pg=PA309 |pages=309–335}}</ref>
** [Howard Hughes Medical Institute](/source/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute) founded in Miami.
* 1954 – [Burger King](/source/Burger_King) founded in Miami.
* 1955 – [Miami Seaquarium](/source/Miami_Seaquarium) established.<ref name="Kisling2001" />
* 1956 – WCKT ([television](/source/List_of_television_stations_in_Florida)) begins broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1960>{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations Florida |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/794/mode/2up }}</ref>
* 1957
** WPST-TV ([television](/source/List_of_television_stations_in_Florida)) begins broadcasting.<ref name=Alicoate1960 />
** [DuPont Plaza Hotel](/source/DuPont_Plaza_Hotel_(Miami)) opens for business.
** [Robert King High](/source/Robert_King_High) elected mayor of Miami.
* 1958 – [Catholic Diocese of Miami](/source/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Miami) established.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: USA |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/usa |publisher=[Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Oslo) |location=Norway |access-date= April 22, 2017 }}</ref>
* 1959
** City public schools racially desegregated.<ref name=bachin-ww2 />
** [Dade County Junior College](/source/Dade_County_Junior_College) and Centro Hispano Católico{{sfn|Badillo|2002}} founded.
** [Miami International Airport](/source/Miami_International_Airport) dedicated.<ref name=bachin-ww2 />
* 1960 – [Population](/source/1960_United_States_census): 291,688;<ref name=census1998 /> county 935,047.
* 1961 – [Colegio de Belén](/source/Colegio_de_Bel%C3%A9n) relocates to Miami from Cuba.
* 1962 – [Historical Museum of Southern Florida](/source/Historical_Museum_of_Southern_Florida) and Cruzada Educativa Cubana<ref name=UMiami-Finding>{{citation |url=http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/index.php |title=Special Collections Finding Aids & Inventories |author=University of Miami |access-date=September 17, 2016 |author-link=University of Miami }}</ref>{{sfn|García|1996}} established.
* 1964 
** February 25. [Cassius Clay](/source/Muhammad_Ali) defeats Sonny Liston for heavyweight champion of the world.
** Chuck Hall becomes mayor of Dade County.
* 1965
** [Cuban exiles](/source/Cuban_exiles) begin to arrive in city via U.S.-sponsored "freedom flights".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2008/12/16/815394/miami-herald-database-tracks-those.html |title=Miami Herald database tracks those who came on Freedom Flights |date=December 16, 2008 |author=Luisa Yanez |publisher=Miami Herald }}</ref><ref name=bachin1960s>{{cite web |work=Travel, Tourism, & Urban Growth in Greater Miami |editor=Robin F. Bachin |publisher=University of Miami |title=Miami Timeline: 1960s-1990s |url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital/1960s.php }} (published circa 2006?)</ref>
** [Florida International University](/source/Florida_International_University) established.
** [Ediciones Universal](/source/Ediciones_Universal) in business.{{sfn|García|1996}}
* 1966 The [Miami Dolphins](/source/Miami_Dolphins) enter the [American Football League](/source/American_Football_League) as an expansion franchise
* 1968
** August 5–8: [1968 Republican National Convention](/source/1968_Republican_National_Convention) held in nearby [Miami Beach](/source/Miami_Beach).
** August 7–8: [1968 Miami riot](/source/1968_Miami_riot).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/explore_category?category=protests |title=Racial Unrest / Miami |author=NBC Evening News |date=August 8, 1968 |via=Vanderbilt University [Television News Archive](/source/Vanderbilt_Television_News_Archive), "Protests" |author-link=NBC Evening News }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Miami report: the report of the Miami Study Team on civil disturbances in Miami, Florida during the week of August 5, 1968 |location= Washington, D.C. |year=1969 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007400970 |quote=Submitted to the [National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence](/source/National_Commission_on_the_Causes_and_Prevention_of_Violence) }}</ref>
** Miami Pop Festivals held near city in [May](/source/Miami_Pop_Festival_(May_1968)) and [December](/source/Miami_Pop_Festival_(December_1968)).
* 1970
** [David T. Kennedy](/source/David_T._Kennedy) becomes mayor of city; [Stephen P. Clark](/source/Stephen_P._Clark) becomes mayor of Dade County.
** [Population](/source/1970_United_States_census): 334,859;<ref name=census1998 /> county 1,267,792.
* 1971 – Latin Chamber of Commerce established.{{sfn|Croucher|1997}}
* 1972
** July: [1972 Democratic National Convention](/source/1972_Democratic_National_Convention) is held in nearby Miami Beach.
** August: [1972 Republican National Convention](/source/1972_Republican_National_Convention) is also held in Miami Beach.
** September: [Florida International University](/source/Florida_International_University) opens.
** [One Biscayne Tower](/source/One_Biscayne_Tower) is built.
** [Miami Dolphins](/source/Miami_Dolphins) have their [undefeated "perfect" season](/source/1972_Miami_Dolphins_season).
** Jack Orr becomes mayor of Dade County.
** November: "Decade of Progress" bond is passed, providing the funding for the [Center for the Fine Arts](/source/P%C3%A9rez_Art_Museum_Miami).<ref name="SFMN 1972">{{cite web |last1=Permuy |first1=Antonio |last2=Cosio |first2=Leo |title=Revisiting 1972: the year that made modern Miami |url=https://sfmn.fiu.edu/dolphins-democratic-convention-1972-nixon-miami/ |website=www.sfmn.fiu.edu |date=27 December 2022 |publisher=South Florida Media Network |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>
* 1973
** April: U.S.-sponsored "freedom flight" arrivals to Miami of Cuban exiles ends.<ref name=bachin1960s />
** [Barnacle Historic State Park](/source/Barnacle_Historic_State_Park) established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails |title= Region: Southeast |work=Florida State Parks |author=Florida Division of Recreation and Parks |publisher= [Florida Department of Environmental Protection](/source/Florida_Department_of_Environmental_Protection) |location=Tallahassee |access-date= April 26, 2017 }}</ref>
** [Maurice Ferre](/source/Maurice_Ferre) becomes city mayor.
* 1974
** [Stephen P. Clark](/source/Stephen_P._Clark) becomes mayor of Dade County again.
** Spanish American League Against Discrimination headquartered in city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://saladonline.org/?page_id=655 |title=History |publisher=Spanish American League Against Discrimination |location=Miami |access-date=October 16, 2013 |quote=Españoles de la Liga Americana Contra la Discriminación }}</ref>
* 1975
** The [Bee Gees](/source/Bee_Gees) move to Miami Beach.
* 1976
** ''[El Miami Herald](/source/El_Nuevo_Herald)'' Spanish-language newspaper begins publication.<ref name=LOC />
** [Bicentennial Park](/source/Bicentennial_Park_(Miami)) opens.
* 1977
** [Foreign trade zone](/source/Foreign_trade_zones_of_the_United_States) established.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://enforcement.trade.gov/ftzpage/orders/ftzorder.html |title=U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary |publisher= U.S. Department of Commerce, [International Trade Administration](/source/International_Trade_Administration) |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=September 18, 2016 }}</ref><ref name=Tiefenbrun2012>{{Citation |author=Susan Tiefenbrun |title= Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States |publisher= Edward Elgar |isbn=9781849802437|year= 2012 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Bdz5eG3b2nwC&pg=PA168 |page=168 }}</ref>
** Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida headquartered in city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theblackarchives.org/?page_id=18 |title=About |publisher=The Black Archives |location=Miami |access-date=October 16, 2013}}</ref>
** [Omni International Mall](/source/Omni_International_Mall) in business.

===1980s-1990s===
* 1980
** May: [race riots](/source/1980_Miami_riots) in [Overtown](/source/Overtown_(Miami)) and [Liberty City](/source/Liberty_City_(Miami)) after the death of Arthur McDuffie.
** April–October: Cubans arrive in city via [Mariel boatlift](/source/Mariel_boatlift).
** [Miami MetroZoo](/source/Miami_MetroZoo) opens near city.<ref name=botanic>{{cite web |url= http://www.bgci.org/garden_search.php?action=Find&ftrCountry=US |title=Garden Search: United States |publisher= [Botanic Gardens Conservation International](/source/Botanic_Gardens_Conservation_International) |location=London |access-date= August 30, 2015 }}</ref>
** [Population](/source/1980_United_States_census): 346,865;<ref name=census1998 />
* 1981
** [Palace](/source/The_Palace_(Miami)) apartment building constructed.
** [Cuban American National Foundation](/source/Cuban_American_National_Foundation) headquartered in city.
* 1982
** [Knight International Center](/source/Knight_International_Center) (convention center) opens.
** Facts About Cuban Exiles organization established.{{sfn|García|1996}}
** [1982 Overtown riot](/source/1982_Overtown_riot) occurs.
* 1983 
** The movie ''[Scarface](/source/Scarface_(1983_film))'', which is set in Miami, is released.
** [Christo](/source/Christo) unveils [Surrounded Islands](/source/Surrounded_Islands).
* 1984
** [Metrorail](/source/Metrorail_(Miami)) begins operating.
** [Center for Fine Arts](/source/Miami_Art_Museum) 
** [Miami International Film Festival](/source/Miami_International_Film_Festival) begins.
** [Southeast Financial Center](/source/Southeast_Financial_Center) built on [Biscayne Boulevard](/source/Biscayne_Boulevard).
** ''[Miami Vice](/source/Miami_Vice)'', a crime drama television series, debuts on [NBC](/source/NBC). It will run from 1984 to 1989. 
** First edition of the [Miami International Book Fair](/source/Miami_International_Book_Fair).
* 1985
** ''[Miami SunPost](/source/Miami_SunPost)'' newspaper begins publication.
** [Xavier Suarez](/source/Xavier_Suarez) becomes city mayor.
** [Stephen P. Clark Government Center](/source/Stephen_P._Clark_Government_Center) built.
** ''[The Golden Girls](/source/The_Golden_Girls)'', a television sitcom set in Miami, begins its seven-year run.
** [Miami City Ballet](/source/Miami_City_Ballet) debuts.
* 1986 – [Lincoln Center](/source/701_Brickell_Avenue) built.
* 1987
** November: [Pope John Paul II](/source/Pope_John_Paul_II) visits city.
** ''[Miami New Times](/source/Miami_New_Times)'' newspaper in publication.
** [Miami Tower](/source/Miami_Tower) built.
* 1989
** [Ileana Ros-Lehtinen](/source/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen) becomes [U.S. representative](/source/U.S._representative) for [Florida's 18th congressional district](/source/Florida's_18th_congressional_district).<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year= 1991 |chapter= Florida |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/19911992official014340mbp#page/n99/mode/2up |via= [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) |title-link=Official Congressional Directory }}</ref>
* 1990
** [Nelson Mandela](/source/Nelson_Mandela) visits city.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Crockett |first1=Kimberly |last2=Burkett |first2=Elinor |last3=Branch |first3=Karen |title=Flashback: Nelson Mandela's visit to Miami in 1990 |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1958245.html |website=Miami Herald}}</ref>
** [Knight Foundation](/source/Knight_Foundation) headquartered in city.
** [Population](/source/1990_United_States_census): 358,548;<ref name=census1998>{{citation |title=Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 |year=1998 |url=https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1998/demo/POP-twps0027.html |publisher=US Census Bureau }}</ref> county 1,937,094.
* 1992 – August: [Hurricane Andrew](/source/Hurricane_Andrew).
* 1993
** [Stephen P. Clark](/source/Stephen_P._Clark) becomes city mayor.
** [Carrie P. Meek](/source/Carrie_P._Meek) becomes [U.S. representative](/source/U.S._representative) for [Florida's 17th congressional district](/source/Florida's_17th_congressional_district).<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory|location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year= 1993 |chapter= Florida |via= [HathiTrust](/source/HathiTrust) |hdl=2027/uc1.l0072691827 }}</ref>
* 1994
** [Eleventh Street (Metromover station)](/source/Eleventh_Street_(Metromover_station)) opens.
** [1st Summit of the Americas](/source/1st_Summit_of_the_Americas) held in city.
* 1996
** [Willy Gort](/source/Willy_Gort) becomes mayor of city, succeeded by [Joe Carollo](/source/Joe_Carollo); [Alex Penelas](/source/Alex_Penelas) becomes mayor of Dade County.
** City website online (approximate date).<ref>{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19961220203436/http://ci.miami.fl.us/ |url= http://ci.miami.fl.us/ |archive-date= 1996-12-20 |title= City of Miami, Florida Official Web Site |via= Internet Archive, [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) }}</ref><!--Was there an earlier city website?-->{{Chronology citation needed|date=January 2016}}
** ''Pottinger v. City of Miami'' [homeless](/source/Homelessness_in_the_United_States)-related lawsuit [decided](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eleventh_Circuit).<ref name=Mikula1999>{{citation |editor= M.F. Mikula |display-editors=etal |title= Great American Court Cases |publisher= Gale |year=1999 }}</ref>
** Liberty City Charter School established.<ref>{{citation |work=New York Times |title=Miami Charter School Hailed by Jeb Bush Ended in Ruin |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/education/charter-school-hailed-by-bush-ended-in-ruin.html |date= March 7, 2015 }}</ref>
* 1997
** May 12: Tornado.<ref name=Weather>{{cite web|title= This Day in Weather History |url=http://www.weather.gov/abr/events#histarchive |publisher=[National Weather Service](/source/National_Weather_Service) |location=Aberdeen, South Dakota |access-date= April 14, 2017 }}</ref>
** November: Mayoral election held.<ref>{{citation |work=Miami Herald |date=January 11, 1998 |title=$10 Buys One Vote |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/works/1999-Investigative-Reporting |via=[Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize)s, Columbia University }}</ref><ref name=fraud1998 />
** Dade County renamed [Miami-Dade County](/source/Miami-Dade_County).
* 1998
** January: [Xavier Suarez](/source/Xavier_Suarez) becomes mayor again.
** March: Mayoral election results of 1997 judged invalid;<ref name=fraud1998>{{citation |work=New York Times |date=March 5, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/05/us/fraud-ruling-invalidates-miami-mayoral-election.html |title=Fraud Ruling Invalidates Miami Mayoral Election }}</ref> Carollo becomes mayor again.<ref>{{citation |work=CNN |date=March 11, 1998 |title=Court Reinstates Carollo As Miami's Mayor |url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/11/miami.mayor/ }}</ref>
* 1999
** [American Airlines Arena](/source/American_Airlines_Arena) opens.
** [Ultra Festival](/source/Ultra_Festival) begins.

===2000s===
* 2000
** [Elián González affair](/source/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez_affair).
** Population: 362,470; county 2,253,362.
** Town of [Miami Lakes](/source/Miami_Lakes%2C_Florida) incorporated near Miami.

==21st century==
===2000s===
* 2001
** Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cubangenclub.org/about.php |title= Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami |access-date=September 21, 2016 }}</ref>
** [Manny Diaz](/source/Manny_Diaz_(Florida_politician)) becomes city mayor.
* 2002 – [Art Basel](/source/Art_Basel) begins in Miami Beach.
* 2003
** [Four Seasons Hotel Miami](/source/Four_Seasons_Hotel_Miami) built.
** City of [Miami Gardens](/source/Miami_Gardens%2C_Florida) incorporated near Miami.
* 2004 – [Carlos Alvarez](/source/Carlos_Alvarez_(mayor)) becomes mayor of Miami-Dade County.
* 2006 – [Carnival Center](/source/Carnival_Center) opens.
* 2007
** Ferguson U.S. Courthouse built.<ref>{{citation |title=Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse, Miami, Florida |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher= U.S. General Services Administration |year= 2007 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010675580 }}</ref>
** Fictional ''[Burn Notice](/source/Burn_Notice)'' television series begins its seven-year run.
* 2008 – [Marquis Residences](/source/Marquis_Residences) and [900 Biscayne Bay](/source/900_Biscayne_Bay) built on [Biscayne Boulevard](/source/Biscayne_Boulevard).
* 2009 – [Tomás Regalado](/source/Tom%C3%A1s_Regalado_(American_politician)) becomes city mayor.

===2010s===
* 2010
** [Port of Miami Tunnel](/source/Port_of_Miami_Tunnel) construction begins.
** Population: 399,457; county 2,496,435; [metro](/source/Miami_metropolitan_area) 5,564,635.<ref>{{citation |url=http://edr.state.fl.us/Content/area-profiles/index.cfm |work=2010 Census Detailed City Profiles |author1=Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research |author2=U.S. Census Bureau |year=2011 |title= City of Miami |author1-link=Florida Legislature }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/026/508.php |year=2012 |title= Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010) |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau }}</ref>
* 2011
** [Carlos A. Giménez](/source/Carlos_A._Gim%C3%A9nez) becomes mayor of Miami-Dade County.
** Vice City Rollers (roller derby league) formed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miami Roller Derby |url= http://www.miamirollerderby.com/#!about/c1z79 }}</ref>
** [Frederica Wilson](/source/Frederica_Wilson) becomes [U.S. representative](/source/U.S._representative) for [Florida's 17th congressional district](/source/Florida's_17th_congressional_district).<ref>{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year= 2011 |chapter= Florida |via= [HathiTrust](/source/HathiTrust) |hdl=2027/msu.31293032287470 |title-link=Official Congressional Directory }}</ref>
* 2015
** [Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016](/source/Marco_Rubio_presidential_campaign%2C_2016) headquartered in Miami.
** The [Miami Science Museum's](/source/Phillip_and_Patricia_Frost_Museum_of_Science) [Coconut Grove](/source/Coconut_Grove) location closes
* 2017 
** January: City revises its [illegal-immigrant](/source/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States) [sanctuary](/source/Sanctuary_city) policy.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/26/first-sanctuary-city-caves-donald-trump-demands/97111048/ |title=First 'sanctuary city' caves to Trump demands |work=[USA Today](/source/USA_Today) |date=January 26, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/sanctuary-cities-debate-has-jurisdictions-weighing-whether-to-defend-the-policy/2017/04/18/5db7ae84-1bb3-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html |title=Sanctuary cities debate has jurisdictions weighing whether to defend the policy |newspaper=Washington Post |date= April 18, 2017 }}</ref>
** The new [Miami Science Museum's](/source/Phillip_and_Patricia_Frost_Museum_of_Science) location opens

==See also==
* [History of Miami](/source/History_of_Miami)
* [List of mayors of Miami](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Miami)
* [National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami, Florida](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Miami%2C_Florida)
* [Government of Miami-Dade County](/source/Government_of_Miami-Dade_County)
* [Timelines](/source/%3ACategory%3ATimelines_of_cities_in_Florida) of other cities in the [South Florida](/source/South_Florida) area of Florida: [Boca Raton](/source/Timeline_of_Boca_Raton%2C_Florida), [Fort Lauderdale](/source/Timeline_of_Fort_Lauderdale%2C_Florida), [Hialeah](/source/Timeline_of_Hialeah%2C_Florida), [Hollywood](/source/Timeline_of_Hollywood%2C_Florida), [Miami Beach](/source/Timeline_of_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida), [West Palm Beach](/source/Timeline_of_West_Palm_Beach%2C_Florida)

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography==
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|chapter= Miami
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}}
** [https://archive.org/stream/rlpolkcosflorida01rlpo#page/n729/mode/2up 1918 ed.]
* {{Citation |work=Florida East Coast Homeseeker |volume=10 |date=March 1908 |title=Miami of Today |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eBhOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA79 
}}
* {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/rlpolkcompanysmi8191rlpo |title=Miami City Directory |publisher=R.L. Polk & Co. |year=1919 }}
** [https://archive.org/details/rlpolkcompanysmi9192rlpo 1920 ed.]
* {{cite book |chapter=Points of Interest in Miami, Fla. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtINAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA120 |title=Automobile Blue Book |year=1919 |volume=6 |title-link = Automobile Blue Book}} [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historic_us_cities.html map]
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|date = 1921 
|oclc = 1580474 
| ref = {{harvid|Blackman|1921}}
}}
* {{cite book |title=Men of the South |editor=Daniel Decatur Moore|publisher=Southern Biographical Association |location=New Orleans |year= 1922 
|chapter=Miamia |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=NfA1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT299 |display-editors=etal}}
* {{citation |author=Kenneth L. Roberts |title=Tropical Growth |work=Saturday Evening Post |date=April 29, 1922 |page=8+ }}
* Isador Cohen, Historical Sketches and Sidelights of Miami (Miami, 1925)
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* {{cite book |author=Federal Writers’ Project |title= Florida: a Guide to the Southernmost State |series=[American Guide Series](/source/American_Guide_Series) |location=New York |publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 1939  |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7199340W/Florida_a_guide_to_the_southernmost_state |page=207+ |author-link= Federal Writers’ Project }}
* {{cite book 
|author=Federal Writers’ Project |title= Planning Your Vacation in Florida Miami and Dade County |series=American Guide Series |location=Northport, New York |publisher= Bacon, Percy & Daggett 
|year= 1941 
|chapter=Chronology 
|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/planningyourvac00writrich#page/180/mode/2up 
}}
* {{citation |title=Tequesta |journal= Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida |issn= 0363-3705 |publisher=Historical Association of Southern Florida |url= http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/ |via=Florida International University }} {{free access}} 1941-

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* Helen Muir, Miami, U. S. A. (New York, 1953)
* Ruby Leach Carson, "Miami: 1896 to 1900", Tequesta, XVI (1956)
* {{Citation |publisher = [Oceana Publications](/source/Oceana_Publications) |isbn = 0379006162 |location = Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. |series=American Cities Chronology Series |editor=Howard B. Furer |title = Miami: a chronological & documentary history, 1513-1977 |author = James E. Buchanan |date = 1978 }}
* Paul S. George, "Colored Town: Miami's Black Community, 1896–1930", Florida Historical Quarterly (April 1978)

====1980s-1990s====
* Paul George, "Passage to a New Eden", Florida Historical Quarterly, 59 (1981)
* {{citation |author=Thelma Peters |title=Miami, 1909, With Excerpts from Fannie Clemons' Diary |location=Miami|year= 1985 }}
* {{cite book |author=T. D. Allman |title=Miami: City of the Future |location=New York |publisher=Atlantic Monthly |isbn=0871131021 |year=1987 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/miamicityoffutur00allm }}
* {{cite book|title=Miami |author=Joan Didion |year=1987 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0671646648 |title-link=Miami (book) |author-link=Joan Didion }}
* {{cite journal |author=Raymond A. Mohl |title=Trouble in Paradise: Race and Housing in Miami during the New Deal Era |journal= Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives |volume=19 |date=Spring 1987 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015028748500 }}
* {{Citation |publisher = Little, Brown and Company |isbn = 0747500649 |location = New York |title = Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America |url = https://archive.org/details/goingtomiamiexil00rief |author = David Rieff |date = 1987 |url-access = registration |author-link = David Rieff }}
* Arva Moore Parks. Miami: The Magic City. Miami: Centennial Press, 1991.
* {{cite book |editor1=Guillermo J. Grenier |editor2= Alex Stepick III |title= Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change |publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=081301154X |year= 1992 }}
* {{cite book |author1= Alejandro Portes |author2= Alex Stepick |title= City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami |publisher= University of California Press |isbn= 0520082176 |year= 1993 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/cityonedgetransf0000port |author1-link= Alejandro Portes }}
* {{cite journal |author=Ramón Grosfoguel |title=World Cities in the Caribbean: The Rise of Miami and San Juan |journal=Review |volume=17 |pages=351–381 |number=3 |year= 1994 |publisher=[Fernand Braudel Center](/source/Fernand_Braudel_Center), State University of New York |jstor=40241296 |author-link=Ramón Grosfoguel }} ([http://www.binghamton.edu/fbc/review-journal/abstracts.html Abstract])
* {{cite book |author=David Rieff |title=The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami |date=1993 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=0671886274}}
* {{Citation 
|chapter-url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:worldencyclopedi00kuri/World_encyclopedia_of_cities 
|title = World Encyclopedia of Cities 
|date = 1994 
|location = Santa Barbara, California 
|publisher=ABC-CLIO 
|author=George Thomas Kurian 
|series=Vol. 1: North America 
|chapter= Miami, Florida
|via=Internet Archive
}} (fulltext)
* {{cite book
|author=María Cristina García 
|title=Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994
|url=https://archive.org/details/havanausacubanex0000garc
|url-access=registration
|year= 1996
|publisher=University of California Press
|isbn=978-0-520-91999-0
| ref = {{harvid|García|1996}}
}}
* {{cite journal |journal=South Florida History |volume= 24 |number= 2 
|date= Summer 1996 |title=Miami: One Hundred Years of History |author= Paul S. George |url=http://www.historymiami.org/research-miami/topics/history-of-miami/ 
}}
* {{Citation 
|publisher = University Press of Virginia |isbn = 0813917042 |location = Charlottesville |title = Imagining Miami: ethnic politics in a postmodern world  |author = Sheila L. Croucher 
|date = 1997 
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}}
* [Marvin Dunn](/source/Marvin_Dunn), Black Miami in the Twentieth Century (Gainesville, Florida, 1997)
* {{cite journal 
|title=Globalization to a Latin Beat: The Miami Growth Machine |author= Jan Nijman |journal= Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume= 551 
|pages= 164–177 |year= 1997 |jstor=1047945 
|doi= 10.1177/0002716297551001012 |s2cid= 154895047 }}
* {{citation |title=Bibliography of the Social and Cultural Geography of Miami, Florida |author= Remy Tremblay |url=http://journals.fcla.edu/flgeog/article/viewFile/78217/75637 |journal=Florida Geographer |issn=0739-0041 |volume=28 |via=Florida Atlantic University  |year=1997 
}} {{free access}}
* {{cite journal 
|title="Playground of the USA": Miami and the Promotion of Spectacle |author= Gregory W. Bush |journal= Pacific Historical Review |volume= 68 |issue= 2 |pages= 153–172 |year= 1999 |jstor=3641982 
| ref = {{harvid|Bush|1999}}
|doi= 10.2307/3641982 }}
* {{cite journal |title=Miami y las nuevas relaciones interamericanas |trans-title=Miami and the New Inter-American Relations |author=Christian Girault |journal=Foro Internacional |volume= 39 |pages=17–64 |number= 1 |year= 1999 |publisher= [El Colegio de México](/source/El_Colegio_de_M%C3%A9xico) |jstor=27738931 |language=es }}
* {{cite journal 
|title=Triadic Politics: Ethnicity, Race, and Politics in Miami, 1959-1998 |author= Guillermo J. Grenier |author2=Max J. Castro |journal= Pacific Historical Review |volume= 68 
|issue= 2 |pages= 273–292 |year= 1999 
|jstor=3641988 
| ref = {{harvid|Grenier|Castro|1999}}
|doi= 10.2307/3641988 }}
* {{cite journal |title='South of the South?' Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960 |author= Raymond A. Mohl |journal= Journal of American Ethnic History |volume= 18 
|issue= 2 |pages= 3–36 |year=1999 
|jstor=27502414 
| ref = {{harvid|Mohl|1999}}
}}

===Published in the 21st century===
* {{cite journal 
|title=Whitening Miami: Race, Housing, and Government Policy in Twentieth-Century Dade County |author= Raymond A. Mohl |journal= Florida Historical Quarterly |volume= 79 
|issue= 3 |pages= 319–345 |year= 2001 |jstor=30150856 
| ref = {{harvid|Mohl|2001}}
}}
* {{cite journal |title=Catholicism and the Search for Nationhood in Miami's Cuban Community |author= David A. Badillo |journal= U.S. Catholic Historian |volume= 20 
|issue= 4 |pages= 75–90 |year= 2002 
|jstor=25154831 
| ref = {{harvid|Badillo|2002}}
}}
* {{cite journal |title=Miami's Hidden Labor History |author= Thomas A. Castillo |journal= Florida Historical Quarterly |volume= 82 
|issue= 4 |pages= 438–467 |year= 2004 |jstor=30149960 
| ref = {{harvid|Castillo|2004}}
}}
* {{cite book|editor=Melvin Ember|editor-link=Melvin Ember|title=Encyclopedia of Diasporas 
|year= 2005
|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-306-48321-9 |chapter=Miami Diasporas |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7QEjPVyd9YMC&pg=PA524 |page=524+ |author=Lisa N. Konczal |display-editors=etal
}}
* {{cite journal 
|title=Coming North to the South: Migration, Labor and City-Building in Twentieth-Century Miami |author= Melanie Shell-Weiss |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume= 84 
|issue= 1 |pages= 79–99 |year=2005 
|jstor=30150917 
| ref = {{harvid|Shell-Weiss|2005}}
}}
* {{cite journal 
|title=Miami: Images of a Latinopolis 
|author=George Yúdice 
|journal=[NACLA Report on the Americas](/source/NACLA_Report_on_the_Americas) 
|volume= 39 |number=3 
|url= https://nacla.org/article/miami-images-latinopolis 
|year=2005
}}
* {{cite book
|editor=David Goldfield
|editor-link=David Goldfield
|title=Encyclopedia of American Urban History
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4il1AwAAQBAJ
|publisher=Sage
|isbn=978-1-4522-6553-7 |year=2007
|chapter= Miami, Florida
|pages= 467–470
}}
* {{cite journal 
|title='Jewel' of the South?: Miami, Florida and the NAACP's Struggle for Civil Rights in America's Vacation Paradise |author= Chanelle Rose |journal= Florida Historical Quarterly |jstor=30150099 |volume= 86 |issue= 1 |pages= 39–69 |year= 2007 
| ref = {{harvid|Rose|2007}}
}}
* {{cite book|editor=Rebecca Biron|title=City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America |publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-9073-2 |chapter=Miami Remake |author= José Quiroga |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KeMGXu2D_7YC |page=145+  |year= 2009
}}
* {{Citation |publisher = Ashgate |location = Burlington, Vermont |title = Comparative Civic Culture: the Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making |editor= Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld |date = 2012 
|isbn=9781409436546 |chapter= A tale of two cities: civic culture and public policy in Miami |author=Juliet F. Gainsborough 
}}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/americas-big-cities-in-volatile-times-city-profiles-85899515062 |work=America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles |title=Miami |author=American Cities Project |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Pew Charitable Trusts |year= 2013 }}
* {{cite book|author= Chanelle Nyree Rose |title= Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERYuCAAAQBAJ |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |isbn=978-0-8071-5767-1 |year= 2015 
}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
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* {{cite web |url=http://miami.fiu.edu/research.htm |work=Miami Metropolitan Archive |title=Local Collections }}
* [http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/galleries/local/miami-dade/index.php City and Local Maps for Miami-Dade County]
* {{cite web |url=http://vivafl500.org/find-a-city/ |work=Viva Florida: History Happened Here |publisher=Florida League of Cities |location=Tallahassee |title= Miami }}

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