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
The Simmons Family: Picture Perfect!
The picture I use for my podcast cover was taken by Mr. Carlton Simmons. He chronicled Cherry Hill families with his black and white photography. If it was a family event, he captured it with his camera. He took all the school class photos until the advent of color photography when the photo studios got the school photo business.
I Have been trying to find Mr. Simmons's children since I began writing the book. As luck would have it, my sister-in-law, Sharon Morris, sat next to Colotta Simmons on a recent trip to NYC and put me in touch with her. It turns out that Colotta and Deborah Butler Johnson, the subject of Season 1, Episode 37, "The Best Gifts Come in Small Packages," are cousins. Mr. Simmons and Mrs. Jennie Butler are siblings. Listen as the Simmons family shares a glimpse of their lives growing up in the lenses of their father's cameras.
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