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Daily Mirror
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Melissa Sigodo

'Freedom fighter' and Bristol bus boycott organiser Roy Hackett dies aged 93

Black civil rights hero and activist Roy Hackett has died at the age of 93.

The community campaigner, who was one of the organisers of the Bristol bus boycott, now leaves behind three children.

After fighting to overturn a ban on employing Black and Asian bus drivers and conductors, the trailblazer went on to co-found the Commonwealth Coordinated Committee which set up the St Paul's Carnival in 1968. Alongside campaigners Paul Stephenson, Owen Henry and Guy Bailey - Roy was part of the first boycott of its kind in the UK in 1963.

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