MIAMI -- The local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People led a march through the streets of downtown Miami on Tuesday to protest inequities in Miami-Dade County.

The march coincided with the 44th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Black activists gathered downtown and marched to the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, located at 111 N.W. First St.

An estimated 300 to 400 people attended the march, waving signs and voicing their displeasure with the county's failed endeavors, among them the housing scandal and the countywide budget cuts.

"Forty-four years later, we are confronted with many of the same problems -- employment, economic disparity -- that we faced 44 years ago, so we're coming together to try to galvanize our community to talk to the mayors, the governors, the president, the powers that be, to say that we are not going anywhere," said the Rev. Victor Curry, president of the local NAACP.

In March, Curry and several other members of the demonstration held an impromptu sit-in at Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez's office after the former county transit director, who is black, was fired.

Curry said the mayor has turned down repeated requests to meet with the local NAACP. Local 10 placed a call to the mayor's office for comment but at press time he was not available.