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Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 – 8 April 2000) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000.
29 apr 2024 · Bernie Grant (born February 17, 1944, Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]—died April 8, 2000, London, England) was a British politician who, with Paul Boateng and Diane Abbott, was one of the first persons of African descent to win election to the House of Commons.
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Bernie Grant channelled the concerns of his community to the highest levels of Government, and was regarded as the authentic voice of Britain’s ethnic minorities. By the time of his death, the outspoken activist of the seventies and eighties, was seen as a statesman of great integrity.
8 apr 2000 · Bernie Grant, who has died aged 56, was a controversial figure long before he became one of Britain's first black MPs. He already had a reputation as a hard-left trade union leader and local...
10 apr 2000 · Bernie Grant, the Guyanese Labour MP for Tottenham since 1987, who has died of a heart attack aged 56, was a red rag to the bulls of rightwing politics.
Bernie Grant channelled the concerns of his community to the highest levels of Government, and was regarded as the authentic voice of Britain’s ethnic minorities. By the time of his death, the outspoken activist of the seventies and eighties, was seen as a statesman of great integrity.
Welcome to the Bernie Grant Archive, a tribute to the life and times of the late Bernie Grant MP. Through this site you can learn not only his story, but also that of the generation of black and minority ethnic citizens who arrived in Britain in the post war period.
