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
Rethia Roach Nickerson: Make New Friends, But Keep the Old!
I first met Rethia Roach in my early years at Cherry Hill Elementary School #159. She lived right in front of the school. How neat! I caught up with her as she was visiting with Jacqueline Sewell Thomas, the subject of Episode 17. We had a wonderful time discussing our life in Cherry Hill.
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