Bush, Greg Interview
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Title:
Bush, Greg Interview
Alternate title:
Greg Bush Interview Miami Beach Visual Memoir
Creator:
Miami Design Preservation League
Close-Up Productions
Publisher:
Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority (MBVCA)
Publication Date:
Language:
English
Physical Description:
00:14:49

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Scope and Content:
Dr. Gregory Bush is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami and Director of the Institute for Public History. Dr. Bush is the author of White Sand Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space and Miami’s Virginia Key, published in 2016, which tells the story of Black activism exerting the right to beach access in order to fully enjoy the ocean. He also co-authored with Area Moore Parks The American Crossroads, which won the Tebeau Prize in 1997 for best book on Florida history from the Florida Historical Society. Dr. Bush is one of the founders of the Florida Moving Image Archive, promoting the use of visual documents to augment telling popular history. Through the Institute for Public History, he has conducted oral histories with scores of Miami- Dade’s pioneering families and people who influenced South Florida’s culture and collaborated with Miami-Dade County Public Schools in an innovative service learning project which taught high school students how to do primary research and conduct oral history interviews with members of the community who were active in the civil rights struggle. His concern about general public access to Miami’s extensive waterfront led him to join others to found the Urban Environment League in 1996. In 1999, Dr. Bush was instrumental in the creation of a civil rights park on historic Virginia Key Beach, which was designated as a black beach in the days of segregation. In the interview for the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs Project, Dr. Bush discusses the people and events that led to the creation of the Virginia Key Beach for “coloreds” and the more recent preservation efforts to protect and promote the Beach as a historic park, once the only beach where black people could congregate for recreation and social interaction. He also discusses the importance of public space and public access to Miami’s waterfront and the continuing tension between private development and the public right of way. ( English )

Record Information

Source Institution:
Florida International University
Holding Location:
Florida International University
Rights Management:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Resource Identifier:
MBVM000017

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