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In 1963, the bristol omnibus company refused to employ black people on its buses. we don t want them on there, that s the main reason. there ain t going to be enough work for the whites, leave alone the blacks. we intend to go an engaging white labour rather- than coloured labour. they didn t know that i was black, but on my arrival things changed and i become a black person, not a person. at the time, every day there was adverts in the paper for bus drivers and conductors. injamaica, i d never seen a double decker bus, and when i saw the double decker buses over here i thought, oh, i d love to be able to drive i d love to be able to drive one of those. what you want, mr green, is to restrict the numbers of coloured people who come and getjobs in the transport department as drivers and conductors? well, that s what i am - ....
Was that the secretary was so shocked when i arrived and it was a black person. i could hear her saying, mr bailey is here but he s a black, he s a black man. and i could hear also that the person in the other room was saying, tell him that the vacancy is filled1 and this was only an hour after i d confirmed that i was going to have an interview. the following day we went to the manager s office and the manager told us, under no circumstances he s going to employ black people. i was working out how best to bring this to the notice of the public and it s then i was thinking of luther king and his bus boycott, and i decided, yes, i will ask the people of the city to boycott bristol s buses. the bristol omnibus . company carries overi million people a day. is this really going - to make any difference? there was good support. ....