. A clump of mangroves in the distance Florida Bay at Flamingo Forty thousand blacks roughly one-fifth of their 1900 population levels in Florida left the state in the Great Migration They left due to lynchings and racial violence and for better opportunities in the North and the West Disfranchisement for most African Americans in the state persisted until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s gained federal legislation in 1965 to enforce protection of their constitutional suffrage. . West Palm Beach PBI Palm Beach International Airport Medium Hub 3,110,450 Barry began graduate programs for men and women in 1954 a continuing education program in 1974 a school of business in 1976 a division of biological and biomedical sciences in 1983 and a school of podiatric medicine in fall 1985! Arts and culture The Atlantic has irregular coasts indented by numerous bays gulfs and seas These include the Baltic Sea Black Sea Caribbean Sea Davis Strait Denmark Strait part of the Drake Passage Gulf of Mexico Labrador Sea Mediterranean Sea North Sea Norwegian Sea almost all of the Scotia Sea and other tributary water bodies Including these marginal seas the coast line of the Atlantic measures 111,866 km (69,510 mi) compared to 135,663 km (84,297 mi) for the Pacific. 1.5 Name change The inhabitants at the time of first European contact were the Tequesta people who controlled much of southeastern Florida including what is now Miami-Dade County Broward County and the southern part of Palm Beach County the Tequesta Indians fished hunted and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food but did not practice agriculture They buried the small bones of the deceased with the rest of the body and put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see the Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle. Unlike a consolidated city-county where the city and county governments merge into a single entity these two entities are separate Instead there are two "tiers" or levels of government: city and county There are 34 municipalities in the county the City of Miami being the largest; .
Overlaying alternatives: choice of countries organization and control mechanisms, In 2013 Florida refused to participate in providing coverage for the uninsured under the Affordable Care Act popularly called Obamacare the Florida legislature also refused to accept additional Federal funding for Medicaid although this would have helped its constituents at no cost to the state As a result Florida is second only to Texas in the percentage of its citizens without health insurance. . In the early 1970s the Miami disco sound came to life with TK Records featuring the music of KC and the Sunshine Band with such hits as "Get Down Tonight" "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty" and "That's the Way (I Like It)"; and the Latin-American disco group Foxy with their hit singles "Get Off" and "Hot Number" They were on the very same South Florida label that released the first disco song to become a #1 hit on the pop music charts "Rock Your Baby" by Miami area native George McCrae in 1974 Other artists from that local label include Foxy Peter Brown Jimmy "Bo" Horne Gwen McCrae T-Connection and Anita Ward Miami native Teri DeSario was also a popular artist during the disco era the Bee Gees moved to Miami in 1975 and have lived here ever since then.
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