Voices of Black Los Angeles: She’s back at work, ‘Pleased to make the choice’
LA TimesThis story originally ran in 1982 as part of the “Black L.A.: Looking at diversity” series. ‘It’s amazing you as a black can come into a group of basically white folks and just really impress everybody.’ ” ‘Very middle-class’ background Her background, she said, is “very middle-class, cotillion and all, Lord help me.” Brooklyn-bred, the oldest daughter of a real estate broker and a veterans representative, Morton attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and taught English before she married her husband Louis, a radio newsman. — Marilyn Morton “He’s been a person I could turn to with any problem I had. When I went back to work, it irritated me when I’d say I’d been a housewife and they said ‘Oh,’ as if that had no significance. “Although it wasn’t much of a choice with three pairs of shoes for the kids costing $100, I think my family would have preferred I stay home all the time.
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