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
Speaks Family Matters!
When my cousins and I get together, it's like a pajama party. We always find some morsel of information about the family that we did not know. When my grandparents, Alfred Louis and Mary Ann Kellam Speaks, got married, they had 9 children of 12 that survived to adulthood--8 girls and 1 boy. They were, in order, Rosina Speaks Wiggins, Mary Speaks Harmon McGuire, Margaret Speaks Russell, Julia Speaks Young, Dorothy Speaks Henson Mayes, Alfred Louis Speaks, Jr., Armenella Speaks Morris, Thelma Speaks White, and Hilda Grace Speaks. Aunt Mary was the last surviving sibling, and she died in July 2012, 4 months shy of her 100th birthday. This episode focuses on the house that played a pivotal role in all our lives, 517 N. Gilmor Street.
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