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Roy hackett has been described as a humble, principled freedom fighter, a man whose legacy will live on. roy hackett who has died at the age of 93. let's talk to edson burton, writer and historian, who joins us from bristol. thank you for talking to us about roy. tell us first of all about the background to the bus boycott and how he got involved. rat; background to the bus boycott and how he got involved.— how he got involved. roy came to britain in 1952 — how he got involved. roy came to britain in 1952 and _ how he got involved. roy came to britain in 1952 and arrived - how he got invol...

A ban by bristol 0mnibus company on employing black and asian drivers and conductors. the subsequent protests paved the way for the race relations acts. 0ur correspondentjo black looks back at his life. 1963, and this campaign was known as the bristol bus boycott. back then, it was legal for companies to discriminate against somebody because of the colour of their skin. new point is that whilst we can obtain required labour in this city, we intend to go on in engaging white labour. , , ., , ., labour. this protest sought to overturn a _ labour. this protest sought to overturn a ban _ labour. t...

LONDON (AP) -- British civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett, a leader of a bus boycott that played a key role in ending legal racial discrimination in the

Hackett campaigned for the civil rights of ethnic minorities in the southern city of Bristol during the 1960s.

They would receive a wonderful welcome in the mother country, that was the colonial education they received and what they found was a lot of hostility, not from all quarters but it was an immersive expense in hostility, so discrimination in housing and employment and it was either you were refused work or given menial work and roy had already done variousjobs in the work and roy had already done various jobs in the caribbean including being an insurance broker, so you can imagine the shock to the system for this young generation of people who had been brought up to believe they were part of br...