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
William C. Wade, Jr., M.D.: Like Father, Like Son
In this episode, you will hear from another member of the iconic Luck family. Season 1, episodes 10 and 25 featured descendants of a slave in Danville, VA, freed at the end of the Civil War, Jerry Luck. Jerry valued education because the law forbade him from obtaining it. He was determined that all of his children would have a good education. He and his newly freed wife, Luvenia, had six children who became doctors, lawyers, and educators. This truly is an American family saga.
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