The Thirty-Year Retrospective: the Status of the Black Community in Miami-Dade County

At the time of Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust's inception, it was a low point in race relations in Miami-Dade County and a great sense of distrust in the Black community existed, as a direct result of the McDuffie riots in the early 1980's. In 1983 Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust commissioned the first Comprehensive Analysis in order to "address and eradicate the disparities existing in the Black communities." The report also made recommendations to overcome the disparities in economics, jobs, education, housing, and criminal justice.

This baseline analysis was updated in 1993 and these baseline indices were revisited in 2006-2007 when Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust retained the consulting services of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University (FIU) to prepare and complete an Assessment of the Black Community with the goal to examine and update these indices in order to determine the existing disparities within Miami-Dade County's Black communities.

The Thirty-Year Retrospective: the Status of the Black Community in Miami-Dade County   is a result from this public opinion survey of Blacks in Miami-Dade County, conducted in March 2007 by the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University.

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