Hispanic Heritage Month: Freedom Tower In Downtown Miami Still Stands As A Beacon Of Freedom

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It’s known arsenic the Ellis Island of the South and inactive stands arsenic a beacon of state packed with decades of past and power – the Freedom Tower.

“The Freedom Tower became that awesome of America arsenic a welcoming spot wherever you arsenic a refuge fly communism, governmental persecution, you could find a way forward,” said Natalia Crujeiras, Executive Director of Cultural Affairs astatine Miami Dade College.

The operation present belongs to Miami Dade College arsenic a abstraction for education, but from 1962 to 1974 it was famously known arsenic the Cuban Refugee Center aft the Cuban Revolution erstwhile waves of immigrants came to South Florida.

“The gathering was the halfway wherever ether received aesculapian attraction dental care, fiscal assistance, enactment placement food,” said Crujeiras.

During that clip the operation present became a awesome of a caller epoch successful Miami – turning the metropolis not lone into a abrogation destination but into an planetary metropolis powered by immigrants.

But aft the aboriginal 70s the tower’s aboriginal was unknown.

“It was abandoned and passed signifier hands to hands, and it was the Cuban American assemblage that rescued it and donated it to the college,” said Crujeiras.

Crujeiras said this landmark’s value indispensable beryllium remembered.

“The thought is we privation to grant and observe our past who we are but we privation to beforehand the assemblage guardant similar Miami Dade College does done acquisition and empowering our students to person a amended acquisition and future,” said Crujeiras.

Today, the operation inactive stands for freedom.

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This twelvemonth it was the show of rallies lasting with Cuba arsenic the state fights against the communist authorities amid a deadly pandemic.