instance_of florida memorial university
The Miami ___MASK65___ ___MASK81___ is the ___MASK65___ ___MASK81___ including Miami and nearby communities . The U . S . ___MASK21___ of Management and ___MASK8___ designates the ___MASK81___ as the Miami - Fort Lauderdale - West Palm Beach , FL Metropolitan Statistical Area , used for statistical purposes by the United States Census Bureau and other entities . The ___MASK65___ statistical ___MASK81___ comprises Miami - Dade , Broward , and Palm Beach counties  Florida ' s three most populous , together forming South Florida  with principal cities including Miami , Fort Lauderdale , Pompano Beach , West Palm Beach , and Boca Raton . Tuskegee ___MASK68___ is a private , historically black ___MASK68___ ( HBCU ) located in Tuskegee , Alabama , United States . It was established by Booker T . Washington . The campus is designated as the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site by the National Park Service and is the only one in the U . S . to have this designation . The ___MASK68___ was home to scientist George Washington Carver and to World War II ' s Tuskegee Airmen . The Atlantic ___MASK39___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s ___MASK11___ and about 29 percent of its ___MASK98___ ___MASK11___ area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Frederick Douglass Patterson ( ___MASK70___ 10 , 1901  April 26 , 1988 ), born in Washington D . C . and orphaned at the ___MASK1___ of two . Patterson would later become president of what is now Tuskegee University ( 1935  1953 ) and founder of the United Negro College Fund ( 1944 , " UNCF "). In 1987 , President Ronald Reagan awarded Dr . Patterson the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the nation  s highest civilian honor . In 1988 , he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP . The ___MASK60___ of Mexico is an ___MASK39___ basin largely surrounded by the North American ___MASK6___ . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the ___MASK60___ Coast of the United States , on the southwest and south by Mexico , and on the southeast by Cuba . The U . S . states of Alabama , Florida , Louisiana , Mississippi and Texas border the ___MASK60___ on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One of the gulf ' s seven main areas is the ___MASK60___ of Mexico basin . Florida Memorial ___MASK68___ is a private coeducational four - year ___MASK68___ in Miami Gardens , Florida . One of the 39 member institutions of the United Negro College Fund , and a historically Black , Baptist - related institution which is ranked second in Florida and ninth in the United States for graduating African - American teachers . The contiguous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U . S . states plus Washington , D . C . ( federal ___MASK56___ ), on the ___MASK6___ of North America . The term excludes the non - contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and all off - shore United States territories and possessions , which include American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands , Puerto Rico , and the U . S . Virgin Islands . Cuba , officially the ___MASK91___ of Cuba , is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos . Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean ___MASK47___ , the Gulf of Mexico , and the Atlantic Ocean meet . It is south of both the U . S . state of Florida and the Bahamas , west of Haiti , and north of Jamaica . Havana is the largest city and capital ; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey . Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean , with an area of , and the second - most populous after Hispaniola , with over 11 million inhabitants . Alabama is a ___MASK66___ in the southeastern region of the United States . It is bordered by Tennessee to the north , Georgia to the east , Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south , and Mississippi to the west . Alabama is the 30th - most extensive and the 24th - most populous of the U . S . states . At nearly , Alabama has one of the nation ' s longest navigable inland waterways . ___MASK84___ ( HBCUs ) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African American community . They have always allowed admission to students of all races . Most were created in the aftermath of the American Civil War and are in the former slave states , although a few notable exceptions exist . The United Negro ___MASK18___ Fund , or UNCF , is an American philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for black students and general ___MASK30___ funds for 39 private ___MASK84___ . The UNCF was incorporated on April 25 , 1944 by Frederick D . Patterson ( then president of what is now Tuskegee University ), Mary McLeod Bethune , and others . The UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street , NW in Washington , D . C . In 2005 , the UNCF supported approximately 65 , 000 students at over 900 colleges and universities with approximately $ 113 million in grants and scholarships . About 60 % of these students are the first in their families to attend college , and 62 % have annual family incomes of less than $ 25 , 000 . UNCF also administers over 450 named scholarships . A " ___MASK65___ ___MASK81___ ", sometimes referred to as a " metro ___MASK81___ " or just " metro ", is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less - populated surrounding territories , ___MASK51___ ___MASK45___ , infrastructure , and housing . A metro ___MASK81___ usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities : neighborhoods , townships , boroughs , cities , towns , exurbs , suburbs , counties , districts , states , and even nations like the eurodistricts . As social , economic and political institutions have changed , ___MASK65___ areas have become key economic and political regions . Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas , as well as satellite cities , towns and intervening rural areas that are socio - economically tied to the urban core , typically measured by commuting patterns . Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ( born Mary Jane McLeod ; ___MASK16___ 10 , 1875  ___MASK71___ 18 , 1955 ) was an American educator , stateswoman , philanthropist , humanitarian and civil ___MASK24___ ___MASK23___ best known for starting a private ___MASK63___ for African - American students in Daytona Beach , Florida . She attracted donations of ___MASK92___ and ___MASK89___ , and developed the academic ___MASK63___ as a college . It later continued to develop as Bethune - Cookman University . She also was appointed as a national adviser to President Franklin D . Roosevelt as part of what was known as his Black Cabinet . She was known as " The First Lady of The Struggle " because of her commitment to gain better lives for African Americans . Florida ( Spanish for " land of flowers ") is a ___MASK66___ located in the southeastern region of the United States . It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico , to the north by Alabama and Georgia , to the east by the Atlantic ___MASK39___ , and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba . Florida is the 22nd most extensive , the 3rd most populous , and the 8th most densely populated of the U . S . states . Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the ___MASK66___ and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States . The Miami ___MASK65___ area is Florida ' s most populous urban area . ___MASK58___ of Tallahassee is the ___MASK66___ ___MASK78___ . The Straits of Florida , Florida Straits , or Florida ___MASK93___ is a ___MASK93___ located south - southeast of the North American mainland , generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic ___MASK39___ , and between the Florida Keys ( U . S .) and Cuba . It is 150 km ( 93 mi ) wide at the narrowest ___MASK34___ between Key West and the Cuban shore , and has been sounded to a depth of 6 , 000 feet . The ___MASK93___ carries the Florida Current , the beginning of the Gulf ___MASK82___ , from the Gulf of Mexico .