The Bristol Bus Boycott

By Silu Pascoe & Joyce Morris Wisdom

A struggle for racial justice

In 1963, activists from the West Indian Development Council (WIDC) had
their suspicions confirmed that Bristol Omnibus Company operated a colour
bar on the employment of drivers and conductors.

But who was behind this? Management? Workers? Unions? Passengers?
Silu Pascoe explores the background and the ensuing campaign to end the
blatant discrimination on the buses.

"I was there!"
One of the young activists was Joyce Morris-Wisdom. In this pamphlet, she
tells of her experience as a teenager newly arrived in Bristol and gives her
eyewitness account of the campaign in which she was involved.

Published by Bristol Radical History Group