Eddie Bartee Sr. was on the front lines of the integration of Baltimore’s Bethlehem Steel mill, on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  In a piece being aired today at 9 a.m. by WYPR’s Maryland Morning, Bartee describes the day when the consent decree took effect.

Bartee’s reminiscence was the first installment in the show’s series “Across the Divide: Stories of Race in Baltimore,” which was part of  Open Society Institute-Baltimore’s “Talking about Race” project.