Bibliograph

Cherry Hill, Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore, Linda G. Morris

Type

Label

Cherry Hill, Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore, Linda G. Morris

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cherry Hill

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Linda G. Morris

Sub title

Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore

Summary

Before Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Black children experiencing the same quality of life in Cherry Hill, a post WWII planned suburban community containing a public housing project on a southeastern peninsula of Baltimore City. These children had a sense of being loved, being free, being safe, and above all, having the space they needed to stretch out and enjoy small town living. They could play all day with their friends, skate and ride their bikes all over town, and chase the ice cream man's truck, with the admonishment to be home by the time the streetlights came on. The author was one of those children, and she rallied sixty or so of her Cherry Hill contemporaries to share what life was like for them in what they know to be a special place and time

Target audience

adult

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