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
Sarah Harmon Windley: Coney Island Hospital Retiree
Sarah is 90 years old, but she remembers details like it was yesterday. She was a hard-working little girl because she was the oldest of four sisters. She helped with diapers and bottles as soon as her sister Mable was born 2 years after her. She was cooking by the time sisters Helen and Gracie came along when she was 5 years old. She always wanted to be helpful. Maybe that's why she became what used to be called a licensed practical nurse. She graduated from high school, got married a couple of years later, and soon left her home in Nassawadox on Virginia's Eastern Shore to make her way in nursing. Hear her very colorful story.
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