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	Podcast:		Witness: Witness Black History
	Episode:		The Bristol bus boycott
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:58
	Publish Date:		2023-08-28 09:00:00
	Description:		Sixty years ago, there was a boycott of local bus services in the English city of Bristol. The bus company had specified that it did not want to employ black bus drivers. The boycott ended on 28 August 1963 and the campaign helped to bring about Britain's first laws against racial discrimination. In 2013, Louise Hidalgo heard from Paul Stephenson and Roy Hackett, who died in 2022. This programme contains some racist language, used at the time. (Photo: Bus on Park Street in Bristol in the early 1960s. Credit: Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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