Bristol Bus Boycott

Following the Notting Hill riots, in 1959, journalist and activist Claudia Jones founded and published the West Indian Gazette and created the first indoor Caribbean carnival, which later became the Notting Hill Carnival that we know today.

In 1963, Paul Stevenson and the West Indian Development Council organised a successful boycott of the city's buses to challenge the Bristol Omnibus Company's Colour Bar against hiring black and Asian drivers.

This later became known as the Bristol Bus Boycotts and the Bristol Bus Company was forced to back down.

The UK's first anti-discrimination laws were passed.

The Race Relations Acts of 1965 and 1968 made it illegal to refuse service, housing or employment on the grounds of race, colour or ethnic origin.