60th anniversary Bristol Bus Boycott

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Today marks the 60th anniversary, when the West Indian population of Bristol voiced their discontent regarding the Bristol Bus Company, which was happy to employ them in, for example, workshops and canteens, but not as bus crews

https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/bhm-heroes/the-bristol-bus-boycott-of-1963/

Their action was announced at a press conference on 29 April 1955. The following day they claimed that none of the city’s West Indians were using the buses and that many white people supported them In an editorial, the Bristol Evening Post pointed out that the TGWU opposed apartheid in South Africa and asked what trade union leaders were doing to counteract racism in their own ranks