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A FEW YEARS AFTER RETIREMENT I DEPARTED MY HOME COUNTRY CARRYING MORE REGRETS THAN LUGGAGE

A FEW YEARS AFTER RETIREMENT I DEPARTED MY HOME COUNTRYWITH LITTLE LUGGAGE, MY CAMERA, AND A FEW REGRETS…..

My Ancestors are Native American {Powhatan}, African, and European

Wayne & Norbert, 1950

Were born of two school teachers, a minority couple, who departed the southern states–away from racism–after WWII, seeking employment opportunity. BALTIMORE. Mother found her job first.

Wedding Day 10 AUG 1947

Two years after the end of WWII and two days before her 26th birthday, Maude, a graduate of Hampton University, married US Navy veteran, William, a graduate of Bluefield State University.

After obtaining jobs as teachers the young couple moved to the sixth largest USA city, Baltimore, where their 2 sons were born and they lived fairly confortably in a tiny Madison Avenue apartment down the street from their Presbyterian church. To further support the family when Maude was pregnant or nursing the boys, William took a second job working as a house-building construction laborer during the Summer, a trade he had learned from his maternal uncle when he was a teen-ager.