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White Rebel|Gary Lewis

White Rebel : The Life and Times of Tt Lewis

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"TT" Lewis, a white working class Barbadian hero, emerges from this biography as a curious, irreverent and ultimately unique product of a colonial society then notorious for its stifling distinctions of colour and class. As a white man championing progressive ideas, Lewis' views and his proclamations rocked official Barbados and cost him dearly. For a decade and half he represented the city of Bridgetown in the colonial House of Assembly first as an independent, then as a member of the Congress Party, the Barbados Labour Party, and finally the Democratic Labour Party. He is remembered as the tragic victor of the 1949 "Lewis Demonstration" and as the father of free secondary education in a country now bettered by few in the quest for empowering its citizens through learning.

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  • ISBN-13: 9789766400439
  • ISBN-10: 9766400431
  • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
  • Publish Date: June 1999
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.51 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
  • Page Count: 244

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