Black TeacherWorking 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. Beryl Gilroy's new life wasn't what she had expected. In 1952, she moved from Guyana to London to pursue her dream of teaching, only to experience Britain's

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