How the Bristol bus boycott changed UK civil rights - Witness History, BBC World Service

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In 1963, 18-year-old Guy Bailey wanted to get a job working on buses in Bristol, England. He secured an interview but when he arrived, the Bristol Omnibus Company refused to interview him after discovering he was black.
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Guy’s treatment sparked a boycott of Bristol’s buses which led to Britain's first anti-discrimination laws. Guy Bailey OBE went on to set up the first black housing association in Bristol and be honoured by the late Queen for his commitment to social housing.
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@ljchandler4876 3 месяца назад

at least this was made public so that people could do something about it - it is the invisible discrimination of any kind that is insidious

@BrockSamson-i1i 2 месяца назад

Bristolians know about this already, it is publicised. there are murals in very public places across the city centre.

@JaneAustenAteMyCat 2 месяца назад

@@albert7311 because if you don't know about it you can't do anything to change it

@Iskelderon 3 месяца назад

I'm always impressed by people who managed to trigger that kind of progress. At the end of the day, it only matters that a person does a good job, not what they look like.

@KitchenSinkSoup 2 месяца назад

@JakaiwKwkwk-l4v proof?

@jaker3151 3 месяца назад

1963 was not really that long ago. The 1988 interviews that were mixed in confused me a bit. I thought it took 25 years to resolve but it actually took 4 months in 1963.

@veramae4098 3 месяца назад

Humans were still using sailing ships at the start of the 20th century. 70 years later we landed on the moon.

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

@@veramae4098and North Africans are still enslaving fellow Africans today!

@carlbirtles4518 3 месяца назад

The boycott in Montgomery lasted nearly a year.

@cedriclynch 3 месяца назад

@@jaker3151 Are people being taught in school about the racist material that was being taught in primary schools in 1963, or about the material that was commonplace in radio and TV comedy and in children's comics? I remember a geography lesson about Outspan oranges taught with educational material handed out by the South African embassy, just after the Sharpeville massacre. Kids were casually taught racist poems like "Eeny meeny miny mo" ; I am not certain where I learned this but it could only have been either in school or on the BBC radio programme "Listen with Mother".

@patchso 3 месяца назад

As a Bristolian, I am so proud of Bailey and Stephenson, and of the city that supported them. This is a piece of our history that should be much better known.

@jamieson88 2 месяца назад

I think it’s more worthwhile to tap into the shame that should be felt for holding these men back, instead of relishing in pride at their hard-won struggle.

@clive373 2 месяца назад

@@jamieson88 good point, but still, I would be proud had I been part of that boycott.

@cedriclynch 3 месяца назад

The Transport and General Workers' Union apologised for its actions in this incident, several decades later.

@errolbaptiste 2 месяца назад

It was 61 years ago the Bristol Bus Boycott took place in 1963.

@rad4924 3 месяца назад

A shameful chapter of our history that I wasn't aware of. It's like watching footage from the American south.

@berniefynn6623 3 месяца назад

Shameful? WHY? OUR country, not theirs,they CHOSE to come here,should have checked out this sort of thing before coming, NOT their heritage they ate now trying to destroy.

@Anticommunism99 3 месяца назад

Shameful is to hate white people

@Anticommunism99 3 месяца назад

No to Marxism

@AdamEve-t4j 3 месяца назад

There is nothing shameful about it, it is history, it is what makes change. It is shameful at the time of happening, but after it is over, it is progress and no longer shameful.

@berniefynn6623 2 месяца назад

NOT shameful at the time, HE CHOSE to come here, a white country

@bron-sconcess.10 Год назад

Thanks for posting! Good archive material; relevant, revealing and heart warming - so many young black males could have had improved lives, no rogue black youth generations borne of hostility to race, climates.

@cedriclynch 3 месяца назад

Would it be possible to get rid of the music that makes the interviews much more difficult to listen to?

@jgdooley2003 3 месяца назад

There needs to be an awareness that as one gets older the ability to filter out background noises becomes less powerful and it is why older people find it hard to engage in conversation or listen to ther people in noisy environments such as pubs, nightclubs etc. Film editors need to be aware of this and tailor their output accordingly. This is especially important with films such as this which are telling a very important story about past practices and injustices.

@cedriclynch 3 месяца назад

@@jgdooley2003 Thank you, what a thoughtful and constructive comment. Usually the attitude is that us oldies should get younger so as to be able to listen to an interview half blotted out by loud music superimposed on it.

@beth12svist 2 месяца назад

I'm only in my thirties and still dislike this relatively recent trend of putting music under spoken words. I think there are many people with auditory processing difficulties, not just old people.

@Steve14ps 3 месяца назад

As a former trade union official I find the conduct of the T&GWU appalling.

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

He was representing his members views! What was he supposed to do?

@mesamies123 3 месяца назад

@@stephenholmes1036He should have been a leader - not a racist!

@Steve14ps 3 месяца назад

@@stephenholmes1036 Sadly so, but as already pointed out he should have been more of a leader than a racist. Also sadly the mindset of the great British public was less tolerant towards minorities back then.

@G6JPG 3 месяца назад

@@stephenholmes1036 His _white_ members. Of course, it was self-fulfilling: if they wouldn't employ coloured people, he wouldn't _have_ any non-white members. (Actually, I prefer to be called pink, as I'm not dead.)

@cedriclynch 3 месяца назад

@@Steve14ps At least the TGWU apologised after a few decades, rather than a few centuries like Pope John Paul II apologising for the persecution by the church of astronomers who denied that the Earth is the centre of the universe.

@DjWellDressedMan Год назад

Linton Kwesi Johnson's Live album explains the Racism in England.

@jamieson88 2 месяца назад

“U.S.-Americans are always so preoccupied with race and racial division.” 😅😅😅 Britons’ and Europeans’ delusions about U.S.-Americans never cease to amaze me.

@therealgodessisis 3 месяца назад

enoch powell went to the West Indies to recruit workers.

@BabaEsconoir 3 месяца назад

Only to complain later about West Indians flooding the streets of the UK for political clout. It worked by the way... .

@shankarbalan3813 3 месяца назад

I read in a book that there was some kind of TV Serial in the 1970’s and all, whose title was “My Neighbour is a “Darkie”? The irony of this is so evident. The British went all over the world. Enslaved so many people of different Nationalities. Looted money and minerals and natural resources and took away the freedom of whole geographies. And still retained this “colour consciousness’ right through time. In today’s new Labour Britain you have a Gentleman of Colour who is the Foreign Secretary and you’ve just said Goodbye to an PM of Asian extraction. How the world has changed.

@Pikestnt 3 месяца назад

It was actually called Love Thy Neighbour but Bill Bryson mentioned seeing it and deliberately mis-remembered the title in his book. 😀 It was pretty dire. Not only offensive but not even very well written

@mike-myke22 2 месяца назад

I remember it as really bad. The one racist premise ('joke') repeated episode after episode

@thespamdance311 2 месяца назад

It wasn’t a great show, but the writer actually had good intentions. The black neighbour was smarter than his white neighbour, and always got the last laugh. The two households mixed, yet the white guy couldn’t help making bigoted comments. The show was actually about tolerance, but would be seen as racist today because it dares to joke about a taboo subject.

@gunner678 3 месяца назад

Shameful

@Anticommunism99 3 месяца назад

Yep absolutely shameful behaviour from the radical left Marxism

@AdrianB2016 3 месяца назад

Very informative, but just like in the US because a POC kinda made you apart of a Servant class

@Pikestnt 3 месяца назад

4 months to resolve? I love the way ppl entrench for months, losing reputation and money and then belatedly capitulate. Rather than asking themselves on day one, “Is this right?” and doing the decent thing immediately. See also Sub Postmasters, Contaminated Blood, Grenfell, etc etc

@alex-E7WHU 2 месяца назад

Etc.... COVID vaccination damage.

@dragonfly4484 2 месяца назад

The British government has consistently done a poor job of acknowledging its failures in the Caribbean and African societies it once exploited. After World War II, descendants of these exploited communities were invited to Britain to help rebuild its economy. Despite never paying reparations for slavery, the British government has failed to provide even basic support to those who sacrificed their time and left their homelands to assist. It’s disgraceful. Descendants of the British beneficiaries from that era should be sent back without pay to offer free services, so they can understand the hardships faced by the Windrush generation. Anyone who still denies these facts and continues to promote bigotry is ignorant and ungrateful, and their views should be dismissed.

@veramae4098 2 месяца назад

You're wrong. "... paying reparations for slavery" were given to the slave owners for "losing" such a valuable "property". Nxo reparations were ever made to the freed slaves. Just to make it clear.

@angloaust1575 3 месяца назад

The australian and canadians Drew much of britains labour After ww2 with cheap fares Creating a labour shortage So west indians were recruited!

@mancebo7 Месяц назад

A miserable, shameful stain in contemporary History of Britain. I had no idea. I thought that by the mid-sixties only the Americans were doing this sort of thing in the Western World...

@captainchaos3667 2 месяца назад

1963, Jesus. That just happened.

@matthewbaynham6286 3 месяца назад

And now we have the Reform party with Nigel Farage.

@gunner678 3 месяца назад

Sad and worrying

@rad4924 3 месяца назад

Imagining being so brainwashed that you actually believe that

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

The biggest enermy of the black American is the white liberal! Malcolm.X

@joelgeorgeable 3 месяца назад

When did he ever say that coloured people can not enter Uk?

@jaymareachealee3351 3 месяца назад

@@joelgeorgeablewhen did Hitler PUBLICLY state that Jews were going to be murdered in extermination camps?

@stephfoxwell4620 3 месяца назад

No it didn't.

@KitchenSinkSoup 2 месяца назад

Why didn't it?

@johnashton4776 2 месяца назад

Calling Afticans colored the audacity.

@marketads1 3 месяца назад

Thank you a million times for this. Europe and America have forgotten how terrible we had been to black people. Now, the idea of “others” in our midst has frightened us once again. Can we rise?

@Rabolisk 2 месяца назад

Makes you wonder if Bristol having a strong green party now will make another boycott successful.

@KitchenSinkSoup 2 месяца назад

boycott of what?

@andyaim4764 2 месяца назад

Reform party trying to keep this spirit going…..

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@youme1414 3 месяца назад

Colonial master! The usual suspect!

@harryturner8701 2 месяца назад

Now this is real racism

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

In Northern Ireland a fair %age of Catholics did not have the vote till the 1970s yet few people acknowledge that they were not black and the irish got as much stick as black people especially in housing and jobs, ? Whats happened has happened you live and learn. Just treat people in the manner you would wish to be treated yourself. None of the language was particularly offensive and the BBC need to remember that.

@Hex___666 3 месяца назад

What rubbish, Cathloics always had the right to vote in Northern Ireland.

@AaronMcDaid 3 месяца назад

@@Hex___666there was lots of anti-Catholic discrimination in voting. As one small example, business owners had extra votes in some elections

@Hex___666 3 месяца назад

@@AaronMcDaid Including Catholic business owners so what's your point?

@MichaelJ44 2 месяца назад

Aaah :)

@edmundprice5276 3 месяца назад

Of course the racism is appalling, but a part of me laments the cultural change that erased the westcountry heritage of Bristol.

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

True I see it as a Cornish man

@edmundprice5276 3 месяца назад

@@stephenholmes1036 onen hag oll my cornish friend, grockles be coming for us all, in Devon too.

@dalek3086 3 месяца назад

good old Bristol - the city that made good money out of the slave trade. some heritage eh

@edmundprice5276 3 месяца назад

@dalek3086 as did London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and almost every other port city. Not to mention the vast majority of cultures around the world. I am proud to be a son of the westcountry, and proud to stand against the imperialists of London.

@dalek3086 3 месяца назад

@@edmundprice5276 I must seek out these imperialists of London. Good for you being proud to be a son of the West Country. London has had waves of immigrants. Huguenots. Jews. Bangladeshis. Yorkshire has a Viking heritage ......

@stephenchappell7512 2 месяца назад

Great Stuff 👍 Now how about some indigenous rights???

@stephenchappell7512 2 месяца назад

@@Anonymous56657 I thought that would be obvious All we hear about is 'rights' for colonizers While indigenous people are being silenced and driven from their homes in order to make more room for yet more colonizers

@Flubbydubbydoodoo 3 месяца назад

60 years later and it's not about equality, it's about preferential treatment.

@BJBjornson-wn5qp 3 месяца назад

Native people have a right to defend labour in their home country.

@joedellinger9437 3 месяца назад

Right, all bus drivers in Bristol must be Welsh!

@mzanzibariful 3 месяца назад

You do understand this was the 60s right? Before collapse of the “empire” that built up said home country. At a time when the mighty overlords could import labour from the colonies at will - which they did in the case of people from the West Indies to England, and people from India to the other colonies. But go on 😂

@PGHEngineer 3 месяца назад

@@mzanzibarifuland what has that got to do with me pr lhim, who should have had the power to bring both the empire and immigration to an end but were overruled constantly by a mysterious power elite that simply does as it pleases in our fake democracy?

@dalek3086 3 месяца назад

look out for Welsh, Irish, Scottish......you native people sure need to defend your home country labour

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

@dalek3086 The biggest enermy of the black man is the white liberal! Malcolm X

@mnaeem4783 Год назад

Ai20

@stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

Oh yes let's go on about some things that occurred 200 years ago, Many more Britons we're enslaved by the Romans! The King of Benin enslaved far more and the North African slave trade today! Far larger than anything then, Oh but you won't mention that will you?

@joechucks1555 3 месяца назад

Thats nonsense the british involvement in the slave trade is the biggest in history bringing up the benin kingdom is not even comparable. Romans do not treat you as lesser humans even today. Can’t people take accountability for their bs

@abo7628 3 месяца назад

Yeah the bbc should defo show us the footage from the time you ask for, might get a few more hits on YT rather than some archived bus driver story

@symontemplar1418 3 месяца назад

The black and white footage clearly displaying a period of racism in the U.K.

@patchso 3 месяца назад

A word to the wise. Try listening to the video before commenting, then you won’t sound quite so foolish.

@KitchenSinkSoup 2 месяца назад

this was just over 60 years ago

@ThePierre58 3 месяца назад

Well, I do not know where the BBC dug this up from. I grew up quite close to Bristol, and my French mother would catch some sarcastic comments when spoke with her heavy accent. I distinctly recall black children in our primary school. Everybody got along. The narrative some media outlets put out is simply not accurate.

@bisiosindero831 3 месяца назад

😂funny you.

@xandervk2371 3 месяца назад

Are you questioning the historical footage and interviews with actual participants?

@ThePierre58 3 месяца назад

@@xandervk2371 In a word, yes, I was there.

@xandervk2371 3 месяца назад

@@ThePierre58 Excellent, I just noticed you in the video.

@patchso 3 месяца назад

This absolutely DID happen. It’s a well known piece of Bristol’s history. It’s historical FACT. But don’t worry, when all else fails you can simply stick your head in the ground and deny reality.