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
Geraldine Wilford Wiggins: Moving on Up!
When 8-year-old Geraldine Wilford first saw New York City, she could not believe her eyes. She learned that there was a world very different from the one she was born into in Miami, Florida, and she was determined to get a piece of it. She was the only child of Jesse James Wilford and his wife Marie Sanders Wilford. After her mom and dad divorced when she was two, her mother married her stepdad, Cyril Leroy Nottage, and she continued to be raised as the little princess she was with all her family having very high expectations for her. Listen and learn.
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