Charles Bush

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Charles Bush, born in Clearview, Oklahoma to Charlie Bush and Octavia Johnson Bush McDonald, attended elementary school in Clearview, Oklahoma and graduated high school in Kansas City, Missouri went on to become the owner of and CEO of over fifty-night clubs in Houston and Dallas, TX. He began his entrepreneurial career at age 16 as a club owner. He is also involved in recording companies, hotels, construction companies, and classic and antique cars sales along with airport food and beverage concessions.

Charles is the husband of Attorney Valencia A. Bush and father to sons: entrepreneur Charles Andre Bush, and Attorney Charles J. Bush, and daughters: Ryan and Taylor Bush.

Keep the wheels on the wagon. “Let your work speak for itself.”
“You have to take care of what takes care of you.”

To hear Charles Bush’s story, visit http://www.thehistorymakers.com/

The HistoryMakers

Repository description (extant):  The HistoryMakers is a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.

The purpose of this archive is to educate and to:

* show the breadth and depth of this important American history as told by the first person;

* highlight the accomplishments of individual African Americans across a variety of disciplines;

* showcase those who have played a role in African American led movements and/or organizations; and

* preserve this material for years and generations to come.

The HistoryMakers is committed to creating and exposing its archival collection to the widest audience possible using collaborations as well as the Internet, a digital archive and other new technologies.

The HistoryMakers is the single largest archival collection of its kind in the world. Our goal is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers. In doing so, we want to include the stories of individual African Americans along with those of African American organizations, events, movements and periods of time that are significant to the African American community. To date, our oldest HistoryMaker is 105 years old and the youngest is 29 years old. We have done interviews in over 80 cities and towns as well as in the Caribbean, Mexico and Norway. Our collection presently houses 8,000 hours of African American testimony on videotape.

Historical research has focused largely on slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, music, sports and entertainment. The HistoryMakers’ focus is to capture the stories of accomplished African Americans across all walks of life and to use video and new technologies to create an accessible digital collection to serve as a resource for students, teachers, scholars, documentary producers and the media.

In recording messages of leadership, achievement and perseverance embodied in the life stories, The HistoryMakers has plans to disseminate its holdings traditional and interactive media as well as through public programs, special events, an interactive website and a unique digital archive. The HistoryMakers hopes to enrich the lives of all ethnic groups, both young and old.

In 2002, The HistoryMakers archives were designated a special collection as part of the Illinois State Library System. The archives are presently not open to the public as we are in the process of reorganizing the collection.