Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love recalls his lifelong struggle against ignorance and racism while sharing a train ride with a bigoted white neighbor On a commuter train traveling from New Canaan, Connecticut, to New York's Grand Central Station, a well-heeled white suburbanite reluctantly takes the only available seat and eventually strikes up a conversation with the black man sitting next to him. The white businessman's verbal barrage...
Author
Language
English
Description
E. R. Braithwaite wrote powerfully and poignantly about racial discrimination-both in his most famous novel, based on his own experience teaching in London's East End, To Sir, With Love, which was made into a 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier-and in his candid nonfiction memoirs, three of which are collected here.
Honorary White: In 1973, after the South African government lifted a long-standing ban on To Sir, With Love, Braithwaite was granted...
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).