MIAMI – More and more streets are being named for Miami’s Black leaders. The events are reminders of Miami’s rich Black heritage.
In the middle of the festivities, you will most often see Enid Pinkney who is blunt about her purpose, “What drives me to continue my work in historic preservation is that I see so little respect for history.”
Pinkney was a Miami-Dade educator for many years. She joined the Dade Heritage Trust, a historic preservation organization, in the mid-1980s while she was assistant principal at South Miami Middle School. In 1998, Pinkney was elected the first Black president of the Trust.
CBS News Miami’s Hank Tester caught up with Pinkney at the historic Hampton House. Martin Luther King Jr. stayed there and wrote part of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Mohamad Ali was also a frequent guest. Hampton House was the setting for the movie “One Night in Miami.”