we meet britain s first black female head teacher. but we start here in the city of bristol where in 1963 and buses like this one here. he secured an interview but when he arrived the bus company turned him away because he was black. now despite this being racist, it was completely legal in the uk at the time. the treatment guy faced sparked a boycott of bristol s buses. in 1963 the bristol omnibus company refused to employ black people on its buses.
An Edward Colston tribute in a Bristol church will be replaced by a picture of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott. Winning artist Ealish Swift said it paved the way for the Race Relations Act of 1965,