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Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.
Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
I've Got My Sister With Me, Judith Campbell Graves
Meet my sister, Judy (Judith Ann Campbell Graves), who was born in 1944 and is in the silent generation. She was my first friend in this world, and we were born into a multi-family, large three-story row house at 517 N. Gilmor Street between Edmondson Avenue and Franklin Street. The house had an elegant, long front staircase with a curved banister that led to the living room and a simple back staircase that led to the kitchen--a kitchen filled with sisters talking and laughing and preparing daily meals while we children played all over the house. We lived there with 3 aunts, 2 uncles, 3 cousins until I was 4 in 1953 when we moved to a row house in Cherry Hill. We discuss our lives growing up together, and Judy discusses being bussed from Cherry Hill to Westport, a neighboring community ten minutes away, after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools. We compare our experiences attending Edmondson High School and Towson State Teachers College, now Towson University.
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