About Gee Bernard
Lived 1934 – 2016 (aged 81–82). Gee Bernard was a politician.
Gwendolyn Enid "Gee" Bernard (29 December 1934 – 6 December 2016) was the first Black councillor for Croydon in London for the Labour Party. She served from 1986 to 2002.
Early life and education Bernard was born in 1934 in Jamaica and grew up on a farm. She later moved to England as a teenager and studied at the University of North London and East London College,
In 1986, she was elected to the Croydon Borough Council for the ward of West Thornton, becoming its first black city councillor. In 1997, she organised parents in Croydon to crowdsource a register of children formally and informally excluded from school.
Death Bernard died on 6 December 2016. She was 82.
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