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
Marcy Rachamim Jackson and Her Super Power: Special Education Advocacy
There are times when you meet people who are called to do what it is they do. Marcy Rachamim Jackson is one such person. Her paternal grandmother, Martha Anderson, modeled advocacy for people with special needs early in Marcy's life. Marcy shared, "My grandmother took care of people with special needs in her home, and we considered them family." When Marcy had a child with special needs, she did the work necessary to find him the services he needed. After 30 years of formally honing her advocacy skills, she has consolidated her knowledge and experience into the book, Pour the Water: Transformative Solutions for Equity & Justice in Special Education, which she discusses in this episode.
Marcy's parents, Benjamin Anderson, Jr., and Margaret Cheatham, met at Baltimore's Mergenthaler (Mervo) High School and were in the classes of 1969 and 1970, respectively. They instilled in their daughter a strong empathetic nature that makes advocacy her sixth sense. She advocates reflexively. For anyone who has a child with special needs, or is closely related to a child with special needs, this book is a must-read. For more information, contact Marcy directly at https://reshinstitute.com or https://SEEUSadvocacy.org.
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