Crime grew prevalent in the increasingly poverty-stricken area in the immediate post – civil rights movement era of the 1960s and 1970s . The ensuing problems of the poor and disenfranchised grew most apparent and notable in race riots which occurred in Liberty City in August 1968 during the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , and in 1980 following the acquittal of police officers charged with the killing of Arthur McDuffie
Republican National Convention
1968 Republican National Convention
Liberty City (Miami)