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
Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr., L.L.D.: An Original Montford Point Marine
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I was introduced to the Montford Point Marines three years ago around Veteran's Day when I attended one of their awards ceremonies at the War Memorial in Baltimore. I didn't know their story before going. Fast forward to February of this year when one of my high school classmates, Eugene (Dobie) Gillis, a retired Marine who lives in California, forwarded me an email in February about the Montford Point Marines Association's 61st Annual Conference being held in Baltimore July 8 -12. I believe in signs, so I said I would go and try to meet an original Montford Point Marine to interview for my podcast. Don't you know that I did just that. Today, July 9, the first day of the conference I met Ambassador Britton, and he agreed to share his remarkable story of how a little boy from the tiny town of Blue Heaven, South Carolina, grew up to become a scholar and a gentleman.
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