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
Sharon Artis Jackson: From Garrison Jr. High into the World
Meet one of my best friends from Garrison Junior High School. We graduated from Garrison in June 1962 and had not seen each other until November 2024. I went to a luncheon of Western High School women, and there she was. This same girl that beat me in the poetry contest with maybe 8 lines to my 2-page poem. But I ain't mad at her--now. Listen to what has happened to her over the past 60 years.
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