A Worthy Piece of WorkBy: Michael Hines The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nations largest and most segregated school systems A Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris), a teacher and an activist in WWII era Chicago, who fought her own battle on the home front, authoring curricula that bolstered Black claims for recognition and equal citizenship. During the Second World