Bristol Bus Boycott tea towel

Description

The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 took its name from the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the US about a decade earlier, yet it had a subtly different focus. Yes, this was about racism, but in this case it was the Bristol Omnibus Company that refused to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England. Founded by Roy Hackett and led by youth worker Paul Stephenson, the boycott rallied the support of Bristolians over a period of four months until the company eventually had to back down and drop its discriminative colour bar policy. This tea towel celebrates some of the men and women involved in that campaign.