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0571366988

Paperback Black Teacher

Author: Gilroy, Beryl

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media Paperback

Edition: New edition

Classification: 371.10092

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2022

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 0571366988 9780571366989

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This edition originally published: 2021

Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Being repeatedly denied jobs due to the colour bar. Marrying an English man and raising two mixed-race children in suburbia. Becoming 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. Black Teacher, her memoir, is a rediscovered classic: not only a rare first-hand insight into the Windrush generation, but a testament to how one woman's dignity, ambition and spirit transcended her era.