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Bookkeeper
Position Type: Part-time Salary: $28 / hour; up to 12 hrs / week Responsible for Museum-wide bookkeeping activities that include a thorough knowledge of Museum accounts and procedures. Maintains accounts payable and accounts receivable; including processing of...
Oral History Docent
Position Type: Part-time Salary: $18 / hour; up to 25 hrs / week Docents are ambassadors for the City of Miami Black Police Museum and help to educate potential and current visitors on the history behind the museum. Through innovative programs, cultural activities and...
South Florida Filmmaker Highlights History of Overtown in New Documentary
Delrish Moss, before he would become a police officer himself, lived the all-too-often experience of a Black man being mistreated by law enforcement. The Miami native was once called the harshest of racial slurs by a Miami Police officer. Another one searched his...
A Conversation With Miami’s First Black Police Chief
Clarence Dickson was the first black graduate of the City of Miami's police academy and he rose to become Miami’s first black police chief in 1985. See the full story...
Museum honors first black police officers
MIAMI (WSVN) -- As part of Black History Month, the City of Miami Black Police Precinct honored some officers who made history. On Thursday, the museum recognized the first five African-American police officers who patrolled the streets of Miami back in 1944. The...
Miami’s first Black cops remember “joy and pain”
Pinder leads colleagues in exposing youth to a proud legacy Miami’s getaway resorts and pristine beaches may be one of the top choices for tourists today, but in years past, segregation kept both Black visitors and Black Miamians locked out. In fact, racial...
At the Opening Ceremonies
Martha Glynn and Archie McKay
At the Opening Ceremonies
Frank Christmas, Clarence Dickson, and Otis Davis
At the Opening Ceremonies
Lt. Norberto Blanco, Chief Clarence Dickson and Lt. Carlos Suarez
At the Opening Ceremonies
Willie Calhoun, Erza Washington and Eddie Mitchell