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Fifty years after the Bristol bus boycott, BBC Inside Out looks back at the racist policies that stopped black people from working on the buses. In 1963 a young black man in Bristol was refused an ...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered the state to review any investments and business with El Salvador, a move that could lead to a boycott over the Central American nation's assistance with the ...
A Bristol social justice organisation is campaigning to bring US activist Martin Luther King III to the city as part of celebrations marking 60 years since the establishment of the Race Relations Act.
My godfather was instrumental in the UK civil rights movement – but you’ve likely never heard of him
Along with Owen Henry and Roy Hackett – and inspired by the example set by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama – he led the Bristol Bus Boycott. After 60 days, on 28 August 1963 – the same day ...
By Trip Gabriel Paul Stephenson, a British civil rights activist who led a boycott of city buses in Bristol, England, in 1963 that helped usher in the nation’s first Race Relations Act ...
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Paul Stephenson, campaigner whose 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott paved the way for the Race Relations ActsPaul Stephenson, who has died aged 87, played a pivotal role in the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, an event that helped to pave the way for the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and 1968. Stephenson – who ...
Dr Stephenson helped to rally thousands of people for the 60-day boycott in 1963 after the Bristol Omnibus Company refused to hire black or Asian drivers. The success of the boycott contributed ...
DR PAUL Stephenson, a prominent figure in the British civil rights movement and a key organizer of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, has died at the age of 87. The revered campaigner who passed away ...
Mr Stephenson helped to rally thousands of people for a 60-day boycott in Bristol in 1963 against the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to hire black or Asian drivers. This contributed ...
Civil rights pioneer Paul Stephenson helped lead a victorious boycott against ... before moving to Bristol in 1960, where he became the city’s first Black social worker. In 1963, it was legal ...
The boycott began in 1963 after Mr Bailey was refused a job at Bristol Omnibus Company. For four months many across the city refused to use the buses, until the company overturned the colour bar. Two ...
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