Hines has published six peer reviewed articles and book chapters in outlets including the Journal of African American History, History of Education Quarterly, Review of Educational Research, and the Journal of the History Childhood and Youth. He is the author of A Worthy Piece of Work (Beacon Press, 2022) which details how African Americans educator activists in the early twentieth century created new curricular discourses around race and historical representation. He is an Assistant Professor of Education, and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. With Black history under attack in school districts and state legislatures across the country, A Worthy Piece of Work reminds us that struggles over history, representation, and race are far from a new phenomenon.Michael Hines is a historian of American education whose work concentrates on the educational activism of Black teachers, students, and communities during the Progressive Era (1890s-1940s). He unveils this history for the first time, providing a rich understanding of the ways in which Black educators have created counter-narratives to challenge the antiblack racism found in school textbooks and curricula. Scholar Michael Hines outlines how Morgan’s curriculum gained momentum through the convergence of interests between Black educators and white policymakers which ultimately lead to her pioneering work in one of the nation's largest school systems to be used in the city of Chicago, and one of the first such curricula in use nationally. During the Second World War, as Black Americans reasserted demands for democracy at home, even as they fought to save it abroad, Morgan’s work gained national attention, widespread praise, and became a model for individual teachers, schools, and school districts across the country. A Wort The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nation’s largest and most segregated school systems.Ī Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan, a teacher and 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.

The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nation’s largest and most segregated school systems.

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A Worthy Piece of Work by Michael Hines