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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
Uncle Sam Wants You! Wayne and Debbie Hicks Speaks, Retired Air Force Family
Wayne and Debbie are my cousins. They have a delightful story of life as a career military family. High school sweethearts, they married at 18, and the rest is history. They have travelled internationally and at one time, considered staying in Europe. Their children were raised multiculturally, which prompted one of them to ask--when in an inner-city McDonald's--where are the white people? Out of the mouths of babes!
I apologize for the sound quality, as I did not set the volume correctly on the track recording Debbie. I sent it to a sound editor who managed to improve Debbie's volume somewhat. I considered having Wayne and Debbie record their interview over, but it would have lost its authenticity--a quality I am big on. Please don't beat me up! I'm old!
Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail.com and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
