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
Power Couple Extraordinaire: Robert L. and Carolyn Green Wallace
Bob Wallace and Carolyn Green Wallace are two of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever met. While I had Bob in my Cherry Hill book as a Cherry Hill success story, I was not previously aware of him. I relied heavily on my very dear friend, Sidney Rauls Ellis, to give me information about the people in Cherry Hill since she lived there much longer than I did. I was just closing up the chapter on success stories when Sidney mentioned that Deborah Curry's cousin had a computer business. I contacted him, put him in the book, and forgot about him. Two years later, I was on Facebook, and something popped up on my screen about a seminar Bob was conducting at a church in Columbia, MD. I am a firm believer in signs, so I took this as a sign that I should attend this seminar happening in three days. The rest is history. Listen and be blessed!
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