A worthy piece of work The untold story of Madeline Morgan and the fight for Black history in schools
Book - 2022
"This book follows the little-known story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris), a Black social studies teacher in migration era Chicago, who fought for and won the first inclusion of Black history in the curriculum of the Chicago schools a decade before the height of Civil Rights Movement educational activism"--
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- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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Boston :
Beacon Press
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xx, 196 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-181) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780807007426
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "Knowledge Is Power Only If It Is Put into Action": The Making of Madeline Morgan
- Chapter 2. "Self-Preservation Exacts a Oneness in Motive and in Deed": Wartime Interculturalism and the Supplementary Units
- Chapter 3. "A Worthy Piece of Work": The Supplementary Units as Alternative Black Curriculum
- Chapter 4. "And Quite the Pride of the Middle West": The Supplementary Units, Influence, and Impact, 1942-1944
- Chapter 5. "Erase the Color Line from the Blackboards of America": The Supplementary Units in the Classroom
- Chapter 6. "This Crucial War for Democracy": Madeline Morgan and Intercultural Education in the Postwar World, 1945-1950
- Epilogue
- Acknowhdgments
- Notes
- Index