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
Salima "Dolly" Siler Marriott: She put the "A" in Activism!
Salima "Dolly" Siler Marriott describes herself as a feminist activist. That seed was planted by her maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Finney Fosque, who was born in 1874 in Exmore, a small town in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She was a midwife in the town until 1940. Salima's activism has changed the landscape of the lives of women all over the world. Listen to her passionate account of her life's work and be inspired to answer the call yourself.
Salima is the author of "Bringing Into Being Our Legacy", mini portraits of 16 dynamic African American women who have informed her life and whose lives have been informed by hers. It is a testament to the power of the sisterhood of women.
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