To Sir, With Love
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9781446425176
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Racial discriminationTeachingPost-war Britain
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1961)
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