Black Teacher
Black Teacher Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Becoming one of the first…
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Black Teacher
Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites.
Becoming one of the first black headteachers in Britain.In 1952, Beryl Gilroy moved from British Guiana to London. Raising two children in suburbia. Her new life wasn't what she expected - but her belief in education resulted in a revolutionary career.
Black Teacher, her memoir, is a rediscovered classic: not only a rare insight into the Windrush generation, but a testament to how her dignity, ambition and spirit transcended her era.