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Railroad Shop: A Black Community Destroyed For A Whites Only School in Miami


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The taking of black-owned land is a common story throughout the history of the United States. In Miami, one community that was displaced — with hours notice — was made up of black workers who built and serviced the local railroads and trains. It was called Railroad Shop Colored Addition, established around 1917 in Allapattah. Eventually, a child of one of the families kicked out of their home, came to sit on the very school board that took the land. WLRN's Nadege Green tell us about what
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