When Geri Morris was forced into retiring in 1998 from the Greenville Housing Authority (GHA) in Greenville, South Carolina, she was at the top of her game in every facet: pay, responsibility, performance, and work ethic—often putting in 12-hour days and loving every minute of it.
Her only “crime” was that she had reached the age of 79, and someone in the GHA decided that she should retire after 31 years—despite the action being unlawful.
