EVERYDAY PEOPLE EXHIBIT: Miami Soul Basel Edition

“The Colored Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum,” as it was sanctioned in the 1940′s, 50′s and 60′s, was designed and built specifically to provide a segregated base of operations for Miami’s newly formed “Colored Patrol Officers” and newly appointed “Colored City Judge”. To the all White Miami Police Department and the City Government, segregation and discrimination was just a way of life. “The Colored Precinct”, as it was eventually called, was built in 1950 in the heart of “Downtown-Overtown”, the most popular and dynamic Black Community in the City of Miami at that time. The geographic boundaries of “Overtown” and the more limited areas in Miami’s Liberty City and Coconut Grove were in restricted zones in which Black “Patrol Officers” could enforce the law. This now historic structure provided a base by which those original Black Officers and the one Black Judge would dispense justice while fighting crime, segregation, racial injustices, the barriers of discrimination within their own City of Miami Police Department, the City Government, and the interminable effect those deficits imposed on the Miami community as a whole and the Black community in particular.

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