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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Bristol launches summer of activist events to become UK civil rights capital

Mural depicting the bus boycotters
A mural commemorating the 1963 Bristol bus boycott, which overturned a firm’s ban on hiring black and Asian people. Photograph: Olumedia/The Guardian

Bristol has long been a city of activists prepared to work for change, from followers of John Wesley in the 18th century to the 21st-century citizens who toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston.

On Wednesday, a new campaign was launched – on the anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking 1963 Bristol bus boycott – aimed at making the city the UK’s capital of civil rights.

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