Bristol civil rights leader and founder of the St Pauls Carnival Roy Hackett received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol today - at his funeral.
The posthumous award was given to Mr Hackett’s family by the deputy vice-chancellor and provost of Bristol Uni, Prof Judith Squires, who said it was ‘a great sadness’ that delays due to Covid meant they were not able to give the award at a graduation ceremony before he died.
The pioneer of Britain’s civil rights movement, who led the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 that paved the way for the Race Relations Act of 1965, Roy Hackett passed away in early August, at the age of 93.
