AKA Doc Brown

Nov 4, 2023 | newssniffer.co.uk | Bernardine Evaristo |Ben Smith |AKA Doc Brown |Dorothy Koomson

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/28/britain-postage-stamp-black-history-month Version 3 of 4. To mark Black History Month, we asked an all-star panel to tell us who they would celebrate for their contribution to British society Beryl Gilroy by Bernardine Evaristo Beryl Gilroy, born in 1924, is the unsung heroine of the Windrush generation of writers.

Oct 28, 2023 | inkl.com | Bernardine Evaristo |Ben Smith |AKA Doc Brown |Dorothy Koomson

Beryl Gilroy by Bernardine Evaristo Beryl Gilroy, born in 1924, is the unsung heroine of the Windrush generation of writers. She arrived in Britain from Guyana in 1951 and worked as a schoolteacher in London for many years, eventually becoming a headteacher. Her wonderful, groundbreaking memoir, Black Teacher (1976), is an account of her early years as a teacher in the 1950s and the racism she encountered and overcame, always with great humour and dignity in the face of extreme ignorance.