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
Cherry Hill's Own Mad (Advertising) Man, Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee shares with us his family's journey from Nova Scotia to Washington, DC, to Cherry Hill. The son of a schoolteacher and ship's waiter, this young man was destined to chart an out-of-the-ordinary course for himself, and that he did. He tells us how he navigated the waters of segregation coming of age in the 1960s to accomplish breaking barriers in the world of advertising. The picture above, left to right, Alvin's older brother, Michael, Alvin's mother, Alvin's sister-in-law, and Alvin is on the right.
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