Black Teacher [electronic resource] : Main
Gilroy, Beryl2021
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Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar.Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites.Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat.Marrying an English man and raising two children in suburbia.Battling racism to become one of the first black headteachers in Britain.In 1952, Beryl Gilroy moved from British Guiana to London. Her new life wasn't what she had expected - but her belief in the power of education resulted in a revolutionary career. Inspiring and unflinching, Gilroy's memoir Black Teacher is a rediscovered classic: not only a rare first-hand insight into the Windrush generation, but a testament to how one extraordinary woman's dignity, ambition and spirit transcended her era.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2021
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780571366996
Language:
English
BRN:
3656003