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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Matt Roper

'Freedom fighter' Roy Hackett described as 'powerful and thoughtful' as tributes pour in

Civil rights activist Roy Hackett was one of the lead organisers of the groundbreaking Bristol bus boycott.

Roy, who died this week aged 93, led what became the UK’s first campaign against racial discrimination.

In April 1963 Guy Reid-Bailey, 18, arrived at the Bristol Omnibus Company for a job interview. Guy who had recently come over from Jamaica to help Britain fill post-war labour shortages, had seen an advert for a bus conductor.

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