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Planned: Gregory Baker Wolfe a former United States diplomat and then-president of Portland State University became FIU's third president from 1979 to 1986 After stepping down as president Wolfe taught in the university's international relations department the student union on the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honor, All potable water resources have been controlled by the state government through five regional water authorities since 1972. In 1993 the first dredge of PortMiami occurred deepening it to 42 feet in 2006 a $40 million project to expand the South Harbor finished in 2011 a project to reconnect PortMiami to the mainland via railroad began in 2013 a dredging project began to deepen the harbors around PortMiami from 44 to 52 feet in April 2019 the Miami-Dade Tourism and Ports Committee approved a deal for Royal Caribbean Cruises to build a new office and parking garage on Dodge Island. . President Tenure Dade County Courthouse built in 1928 is the tallest building built in the 1920s, As the "Cargo Gateway of the Americas" the port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk vehicles and industrial equipment It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States As a world-class port PortMiami is among an elite group of ports in the world which cater to both cruise ships and containerized cargo. .

(20.3) 70.8 The Graham Center FIU's student union Over 3.5 million people walk through the Graham Center every year making it the heart of student life at FIU. In 1830 Richard Fitzpatrick bought land on the Miami River from Bahamian James Egan He built a plantation with slave labor where he cultivated sugarcane bananas maize and tropical fruit in January 1836 shortly after the beginning of the Second Seminole War Fitzpatrick removed his slaves and closed his plantation. . The Aethiopian Ocean in a 1710 French map of Africa Miami Florida Business directory 3 Education As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population which includes African Americans Out of the 16.0% 4.0% (741,879) were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American During the early 1900s black people made up nearly half of the state's population in response to segregation disfranchisement and agricultural depression many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the Great Migration in waves from 1910 to 1940 and again starting in the later 1940s They moved for jobs better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society by 1960 the proportion of African Americans in the state had declined to 18% Conversely large numbers of northern whites moved to the state.[citation needed] Today large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S. there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian recent African and Afro-Latino immigrant origins especially in the Miami/South Florida area.