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
Mrs. Dorothy Maith: Over a Century of Memories!
Mrs. Dorothy Maith is 102 years old. She was born in the Rossville area of Baltimore County and was a member of the first class to graduate from Baltimore City's Dunbar High School in 1941. She and her husband, Robert, Sr., bought a house in Cherry Hill after he returned from the war. Their sons, Robert, Jr., and Ronald lived in this home, Ronald having been delivered there by Dr. Jerry Luck. Siblings Stanley, Caryl, and Daryl were born when the family moved to the pink house on the corner of Cherry Hill Road and Round Road. Daryl, Caryl's twin, contacted me to tell me about their family. His call resulted in this episode.
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