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
Robert "Bobby" Maith: Life in the Garden of Eden, AKA Cherry Hill
Bobby Maith, the oldest child of Mrs. Dorothy Maith of Episode 22, once said that growing up in Cherry Hill was like living in the Garden of Eden with all the lush foliage, fruit trees, and wooded areas that we had. Mr. Maith, Bobby's dad, provided well for his family in that he worked for Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point--the highest paying employer in Baltimore at that time. Mr. Maith was also a veteran returning from WWII, so he was able to purchase a home on the GI Bill. The Maith family was "living in high cotton," as the saying goes. The Maiths lived a middle-class existence. Listen as Bobby recalls what was special about Cherry Hill.
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