"In 1963 campaigners, led by Paul Stephenson, Roy Hackett, Guy Bailey and others, boycotted the Bristol Omnibus Company (now First Bus) after they refused to hire Black and Asian people.

Ultimately, on August 28 1963 – the same day as Martin Luther King Jr’s famous ‘I Have A Dream Speech’ – the bus company’s colour bar came to an end."

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https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/community-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-civil-rights-struggle/