The Magic City is ours.
Liberty City. ZIP 33150. Two square miles where Black Miami built a world — schools, sanctuaries, and a millionaire’s row of its own. Scroll, and let the ground tell its story.
Liberty Square.
The first public housing for Black residents in the South — the “Pork & Beans.” Built on high, dry inland ground nobody else wanted. Hold onto that detail.
The Race Wall.
On NW 12th Avenue they poured concrete to keep Black families from white neighborhoods. Segregation you could touch. It still stands today.
Where the Bulls were raised.
Generations learned, marched, and rose here. Miami Northwestern alone gave the world Barry Jenkins, Rep. Frederica Wilson, and Barrington Irving.
Millionaire’s Row.
Across from Liberty Square on NW 67th, Miami’s Black elite built grand homes. And you cannot speak of Black Miami wealth without D.A. Dorsey — Miami’s first Black millionaire, a sharecropper’s son who built a real-estate empire.
The faith that held us.
From Liberty City to Overtown, the church was refuge and headquarters. St. Peter’s African Orthodox Cathedral (est. 1936) fused African American identity with ancient liturgy — a century of Black sacred ground.
Higher ground.
Liberty City sits on some of Miami’s highest, safest land. As the seas rise, capital wants this dry ground — “climate gentrification.” The same families pushed here are now pushed out.
We will not be moved.
This map is the record. The ground is sacred — and contested. We organize so the people who built the Magic City keep it.