{"product_id":"the-1963-bristol-bus-boycott","title":"The 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Silu Pascoe \u0026amp; Joyce Morris-Wisdom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBristol Radical History Group\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePamphlet, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e45 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA struggle for racial justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIn 1963, activists from the West Indian Development Council (WIDC) had their suspicions confirmed that Bristol Omnibus Company operated a colour bar on the employment of drivers and conductors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBut who was behind this? Management? Workers? Unions? Passengers?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSilu Pascoe explores the background and the ensuing campaign to end the blatant discrimination on the buses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“I was there!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOne of the young activists was Joyce Morris-Wisdom. In this pamphlet, she tells of her experience as a teenager newly arrived in Bristol and gives her eyewitness account of the campaign in which she was involved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55031830839630,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/66_covers-FRONT-604x854.jpg?v=1761225957","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.pro\/products\/the-1963-bristol-bus-boycott","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}