Bea Hines was the first Black female journalist, and later columnist, at The Miami Herald. But before she was hired as a file clerk at the Herald in 1966, she worked as a domestic on Miami Beach, the only job open to black women without a college education in those days.
This interview was filmed in July, 2013 at the Welcome Center on Miami Beach as part of the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs project, a partnership of Close-Up Productions and the Miami Design Preservation League working under a grant from the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority.