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To Sir, With Love

E. R. Braithwaite

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#1654 of 3,809 books · #549 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1961).

In 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. He is deeply shocked to realise that, as a black man from British Guiana, no one will employ him because of the colour of his skin. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking a job in a tough East End school, and left to govern a class of unruly teenagers. With no experience or guidance, Braithwaite attempts to instil discipline, confound prejudice and ultimately, to teach.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781446425176
Topics
Racial discriminationTeachingPost-war Britain

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