T
ributes have been paid to a civil rights campaigner who was one of the organisers of the Bristol Bus Boycott.
Roy Hackett, who has died at the age of 93, was part of the successful campaign to overturn a ban by Bristol Omnibus Company on employing black and Asian drivers and conductors.
The 1963 campaign, which lasted four months, mobilised people across the city. At the time, a “colour bar” in Britain meant that people from minority ethnic backgrounds could legally be banned from housing, employment and public places.
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