Hannah Cusworth reflects on a landmark moment in the campaign for racial equality in Britain

By Spencer Mizen

Published: Friday, 28 April 2023 at 12:00 am


This April marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Bristol bus boycott in 1963, a campaign to overturn a bar on black and Asian conductors and drivers working on buses in the city. Hannah Cusworth tells Spencer Mizen how a group of activists turned the boycott into a cause celebre, and paved the way for landmark legislation against racial discrimination in Britain.

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