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
Matthew Anderson Kinnard, Ph.D., Retired Director of the NIH Extramural Associates Program
The National Institutes of Health is not a typical Federal work environment. It is located on a 300+ acre campus in Bethesda, MD. There are over 30 buildings on the grounds, and it has its own power plant, police department, and fire department. Every single employee has a hand in the great research that comes out of this premier biomedical research facility--from the maintenance staff who clean the labs to the glass washers to the cafeteria staff. If you worked at the NIH, you definitely felt you had a role to play in its mission.
Most of the early African Americans who went to work there stumbled across this hidden gem accidentally. Matt Kinnard did too. His was quite a journey from the farms in rural Tennessee to Lab scientist to NIH Administrator.
Matt Kinnard and his late wife, Regina Linden Compton Kinnard, were a very accomplished couple--he in science and she in education. Among these accomplishments is a treasured marriage of 59 years, 9 months, that have left him with so many cherished memories.
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