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
Woman Excels Despite Deficiencies!--Helen Harmon Rowley
Helen Harmon Rowley is a loyal daughter of Virginia's Eastern Shore. Born in Nassawadox of Northampton County in 1939, she has always wanted to live there. She had a very colorful journey to becoming a successful career educator despite deficiencies that could have made that impossible. In her early adult years, she desired a government job. However, along the way, she bypassed an interview for a Federal job because of falling in love with teaching. Helen's eagerness to see young people learn and be impacted by her teaching brought her much delight and fond memories.
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