Bristol Bus Boycott 1963

Tag: Tony Benn

  • Roy Hackett – interview with Testimony Films

    Hope and Glory – Roy Hackett and Testimony The team at Testimony interview Roy for their Hope and Glory series. All rights remain with Testimony Films , who kindly supplies this footage for community research purposes.

  • Paul Stephenson at Wesley Chapel, Bristol BHM 2005

    Paul Stephenson at Wesley Chapel, Bristol BHM 2005

    Paul speaks of the Bristol bus boycott as my fight. At this event, he speaks about the history of Black History Month, the connection to Bristol and translatlantic slavery; his English-born black family going back 200 years; his public fights in the 1960s and the needs for education, especially for black children. The talk at…

  • The Bristol Bus Boycott’s Impact

    The Bristol Bus Boycott’s Impact

    The Bristol Bus Boycott helped to change the law in England. It sparked the first of many laws that deal with equality but the immigration and nationality laws that spring up at the same time shows another side.In 1914 the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act declared that any person born within the British…