(28.2) 79.5 Miami Florida Business directory Functions: marketing global manufacturing and supply chain management accounting finance human resources, 3.4.1 Concourse A Downtown Miami Historic District. Spain-United States Chamber of Commerce South Terminal (Red). Following the 1959 Cuban revolution that unseated Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power most Cubans who were living in Miami returned to Cuba Soon after however many middle class and upper class Cubans moved to Florida en masse with few possessions Some Miamians were upset about this especially the African Americans who believed that the Cuban workers were taking their jobs.[citation needed] in addition the school systems struggled to educate the thousands of Spanish-speaking Cuban children Many Miamians fearing that the Cold War would become World War III left the city while others started building bomb shelters and stocking up on food and bottled water Many of Miami's Cuban refugees realized for the first time that it would be a long time before they would get back to Cuba in 1965 alone 100,000 Cubans packed into the twice daily "freedom flights" from Havana to Miami Most of the exiles settled into the Riverside neighborhood which began to take on the new name of "Little Havana" This area emerged as a predominantly Spanish-speaking community and Spanish speakers elsewhere in the city could conduct most of their daily business in their native tongue By the end of the 1960s more than four hundred thousand Cuban refugees were living in Dade County! QS in 2015 ranked FIU's MBA program 58th in North America, Pensacola metropolitan area 4 Community involvement The first edition was published September 15 1903 as the Miami Evening Record After the recession of 1907 the newspaper had severe financial difficulties Its largest creditor was Henry Flagler Through a loan from Henry Flagler Frank B Shutts who was also the founder of the law firm Shutts & Bowen acquired the paper and renamed it the Miami Herald on December 1 1910 Although it is the longest continuously published newspaper in Miami the earliest newspaper in the region was the Tropical Sun established in 1891 the Miami Metropolis which later became the Miami News was founded in 1896 and was the Herald's oldest competitor until 1988 when it went out of business.[citation needed]. Population: as of the 2010 U.S Census there were 5,564,635 people 2.8 million (52%) were females and 2.6 million (48%) were males the median age was 38.6 years 24% of the population were under 18 years and 15% were 65 years and older There were 2,097,626 households and 1,378,108 families residing in the Miami metropolitan area, 12.4 Places of worship 2.4 Rankings, 1960 1,497,099 115.8% Star Island Miami River.
Pompano Beach Airpark PPM KPMP Broward Miami Florida Business directory 12.7 Sports facilities Management and New Growth Opportunities 2015. . In 2004 the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported that Miami had the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any major city worldwide (59%) followed by Toronto (50%), The first post-Reconstruction era Republican elected to Congress from Florida was William C Cramer in 1954 from Pinellas County on the Gulf Coast where demographic changes were underway in this period African Americans were still disenfranchised by the state's constitution and discriminatory practices; in the 19th century they had made up most of the Republican Party Cramer built a different Republican Party in Florida attracting local white conservatives and transplants from northern and midwestern states in 1966 Claude R Kirk Jr was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican governor in an upset election in 1968 Edward J Gurney also a white conservative was elected as the state's first post-reconstruction Republican US senator in 1970 Democrats took the governorship and the open US Senate seat and maintained dominance for years, The first permanent European settlers arrived in the early 19th century People came from the Bahamas to South Florida and the Keys to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida Reef Some accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves the area was affected by the Second Seminole War during which Major William S Harney led several raids against the Indians Most non-Indian residents were soldiers stationed at Fort Dallas it was the most devastating Indian war in American history causing almost a total loss of population in Miami.
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