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Black and white on the buses: the 1963 colour bar dispute in Bristol

Bristol bus boycott demonstration
Bristol bus boycott demonstration

A detailed pamphlet by Madge Dresser on the Bristol bus boycott, when a mass campaign defeated the TGWU union's bar on black and Asian people working in bus crews.

Submitted by Steven. on August 11, 2017
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  • racism
  • Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU)
  • United Kingdom
  • migration
  • buses
  • Bristol
  • boycotts
  • Madge Dresser
  • Bristol bus boycott
  • black liberation in Britain
  • PDF

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