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
Pastor Donald Jones, Turner Station Servant Leader
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Donald Jones did not set out to be a minister. He took a very circuitous route. However, he got there, he's there. His family migrated to Baltimore in the early 1940s like so many black families searching for better lives. They moved to Baltimore before he was born which makes him the only member of his family born in Turner Station. Listen as Pastor Jones shares his Boomer path.
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