Starter quiz
- People in the RAF…
- drive trucks.
- sail boats.
- fly planes. ✓
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- A youth worker’s job is to work with and help ______ people.
- 'young' ✓
- When he was in the RAF, Paul started working with and helping young people.
- True ✓
- False
- Paul Stephenson was the first black youth worker in...
- London
- Bristol ✓
- Essex
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- After the Second World War, people from all over ______ were invited to live in Britain.
- America
- the world ✓
- Australia
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- Black people in Britain in the 1960s were treated…
- fairly
- unfairly ✓
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Exit quiz
- Bristol ______ companies would not let people of colour work for them.
- train
- car
- bus ✓
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- Match the keyword to the correct definition.
- protest⇔when a lot of people come together to show they dislike something ✓
- politician⇔someone who works for the government ✓
- boycott⇔when people refuse to buy or use something as a protest ✓
- Paul Stephenson joined up with four people from ______ to organise a protest.
- the Caribbean ✓
- the RAF
- France
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- The protest was called the Bristol ______ Boycott.
- 'Bus' ✓
- Select the people who joined in with the Bristol Bus Boycott.
- students ✓
- bus drivers
- cricket players ✓
- politicians ✓
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- The Bristol Bus Boycott lasted for...
- 4 days
- 4 months ✓
- 4 years
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Key learning points
- One big problem that black people faced in Bristol was finding good jobs.
- Even though there were not enough workers on the city's buses, people of colour were not allowed to work on them.
- This made Paul Stephenson very angry and so with four men from the Caribbean islands he decided to take action.
- They organised a boycott of the city's buses, supported by students, celebrities and politicians.
- After several months, the bus company agreed to allow people of colour to work on the buses.
Common misconception
Some may think that the only people not allowed to work for the Bristol bus companies in 1963 were black people.
The bus companies did not allow anyone who was not white to work for them.
Keywords
Protest - a protest is when a lot of people come together to show others that they strongly dislike something
Boycott - a boycott is when people refuse to buy or use something as a protest
Politician - a politician is someone who works for the government
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