Background
GRANT, Bemie was born on February 17, 1944 in Guyana. Parents: Eric Grant and Lily Grant.
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Bemie GRANT
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also known as
Bernard Alexander Montgomery
Education
St. Stanislaus College, Georgetown, Guyana, 1955-1961. Tottenham Technical College, London, 1965-1967. Bsc., Mining Engineering, Heriot Watt University, 1967-1969, left due to discrimination in arranged scholarships to South Africa.
Career
Various positions in Post Office Workers’ Union, 1969-1978. Union delegate, Tottenham Constituency Labour Party, 1975-1978. Various positions, Bruce Grove and Coleraine wards, Tottenham and Wood Green Labour Parties, 1975-1988.
Founder member, Harringey Labour Movement Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist Campaign. Founder member. All London Campaign Against Racism and Fascism. Member, Tony Anderson Campaign, April 23 Defence Committee.
Hornsey 28 Campaign; member West Indian Standing Conference, Young Single Homeless Project. Founder member, Broadwater Farm Youth Association. Area Officer, NUPE, set up Race Advisory Committee, 1978-1983.
Founder member. Standing Conference of Afro-Carribean and Asian Councillors. Tottenham Constituency Labour Party conference delegate, 1984. Founder member Labour Party Black Sections.
Chair, Tottenham black Section, since 1983. Leader, Haringey Council, first black leader of a local authority in Europe, 198587. Councillor, Haringey London Borough Council, since 1978, Council Leader, 198587.
Organised various visits to Grenada and Jamaica, 1982-1985. Chair of race equality Committee, Harringey Council, 1985-1987. Speaker at ANC World Conference, 1987.
Member standing Committee on local government, bill, 1987. Member of Parliament for Tottenham, since 1987. Member AntiApartheid Movement Executive, 1988.
Founder member and Chairman, Parliamentary Black Caucus, since 1988. Mission to South Africa with Reverend Jesse Jackson, February 1990, greeting Nelson Mandela on his day of release. Chairman, standing committee on race equality in Europe, since 1989.
Chairman, socialist campaign group, labour MPs, since 1990. Analyst, Demerara Bauxite Company, Mackenzie, 1961-1963. Clerk, British Rail, 1963-1965.
Telephonist, 1969-1973. Area Officer, NUPE, 1978-1983. Development Worker, Black Trade Unionist Solidarity Movement, 1983-1984.
Local Government Officer, London Borough of Newham, 1984-1987.
Membership
Clubs: Honorary Life member of Post Office Workers’ Union.
