workingclasshistory:

On this day, 30 April 1963, a boycott was launched of buses in Bristol, England, by a group of West Indian migrant workers in protest at the bar on black and Asian workers working in bus crews in the city. The “colour bar” was enforced by the TGWU union and the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company after white union members had threatened to walk out if “coloured” workers were employed. After months of the boycott, and mass protests, bus workers voted at a mass meeting in August to end the ban. In September the first bus conductor of colour was recruited. Two years later the Race Relations Act was introduced which forbade race discrimination in public places.
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