Editing Allapattah (section)

==History==
The name is derived from the [[Seminole|Seminole Indian]] language word meaning ''[[alligator]]''. The initial settlement of the Allapattah community began in 1856 when William P. Wagner, the earliest documented [[white American]] permanent settler, arrived from [[Charleston, South Carolina]] and established a [[homestead (buildings)|homestead]] on a [[Hammock (ecology)|hammock]] along the [[Miami Rock Ridge]], where [[Miami Jackson High School]] presently stands. Development ensued from 1896 and into the 20th century in the area with the completion of the [[Florida East Coast Railway|Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC)]].<ref>Muir, Helen. 1953. ''Miami, U.S.A.'' Miami, Florida: Hurricane House Publishers, Inc. [[Library of Congress Classification|LCC]] 53-8981.</ref>

While most of Allapattah was populated by whites until the late 1950s, an African American neighborhood named Railroad Shops Colored Addition existed between NW 46th Street to the south and NW 50th Street to the north, from NW 12th Avenue on the east to NW 14th Avenue on the west. The neighborhood had been established at the end of the 19th century when the Florida East Coast Railroad built servicing facilities nearby. In the late 1940s the entire neighborhood was condemned under eminent domain, and the residents forced to leave. The area was used as a site for a new white school (originally named Allapattah Elementary, since renamed Lenora B. Smith Elementary in honor of an educator who once lived in the Railroad Shops neighborhood) and a park.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bachin|first=R.|date=2020|title=Race, Housing and Displacement in Miami - Segregation and Color Lines - Railroad Shop|url=https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0d17f3d6e31e419c8fdfbbd557f0edae|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210133629/https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0d17f3d6e31e419c8fdfbbd557f0edae|archive-date=December 10, 2021|access-date=December 27, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=May 6, 2020|title=Miami and County School Board Destroyed A Black Community To Build A Whites Only School|url=https://www.wlrn.org/news/2020-05-06/miami-and-county-school-board-destroyed-a-black-community-to-build-a-whites-only-school|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201163659/https://www.wlrn.org/news/2020-05-06/miami-and-county-school-board-destroyed-a-black-community-to-build-a-whites-only-school|archive-date=December 1, 2021|access-date=December 27, 2021|website=WLRN Miami}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Gibson|first=Vennda-Rei|date=January 25, 2017|title=Lenora B. Smith Elementary gets portraits of namesake|work=The Miami Times|url=https://www.miamitimesonline.com/faith_family/family_news/lenora-b-smith-elementary-gets-portraits-of-namesake/article_12c28136-e32a-11e6-91c0-c39fe578da01.html|access-date=December 27, 2021}}</ref>

There was a large influx of [[African Americans|black American]]s displaced by the construction of [[Interstate 95 in Florida|I-95]] (then, the North-South Expressway) into Allapattah in the 1950s and 1960s, leading to [[white flight]] to [[suburban]] Miami-Dade County and [[Broward County, Florida|Broward County]]. [[Cuban migration to Miami|Cubans migrated]] to Miami neighborhoods like Allapattah in large numbers following the [[Cuban Revolution|Cuban Revolution of 1959]], hosting one of Miami's largest [[Cuban American]] populations. The 1980s brought influxes of Dominican Americans, [[Nicaragua]]ns, [[Honduras|Hondurans]], and [[Haiti]]ans in the aftermath of various [[refugee]] crises in those nations.  Now, a [[melting pot]] of residents from all across the [[Caribbean]], [[Central America]], [[Latin America]] more broadly, and African Americans who historically lived throughout the South, reside in the area.