Starter quiz
- Paul Stephenson and others started a boycott of buses in…
- London
- Bristol ✓
- Scotland
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- What is a boycott?
- someone who works for the government
- when people refuse to buy or use something as a protest ✓
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- Black families in Bristol could only find ______ paid jobs in the 1960s.
- low ✓
- high
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- Bristol’s bus companies would only let ______ people work for them.
- 'white' ✓
- Lots of people joined in with the Bristol Bus Boycott.
- True ✓
- False
- What year was the Bristol Bus Boycott?
- 2023
- 2003
- 1963 ✓
- 1903
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Exit quiz
- Match the job title to the correct description.
- bus conductor⇔collects the tickets on a bus ✓
- politician⇔works in the government ✓
- bus driver⇔drives the bus ✓
- The Bristol Bus Boycott was a success.
- True ✓
- False
- Raghbir Singh was the first bus ______ on the Bristol buses who was a person of colour.
- driver
- conductor ✓
- passenger
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- Paul Stephenson walked into The Bay Horse ______ in 1964.
- 'pub' ✓
- In 1965, the British government finally made a new...
- 'law' ✓
- After 1965, nobody in Britain was allowed to be treated differently because of their...
- skin colour ✓
- name
- job
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- In the month after the boycott, Raghbir Singh became Bristol's first bus conductor who was a person of colour.
- However, Paul Stephenson continued to fight against the way people of colour were being treated.
- This is why he went into The Bay Horse pub; he wanted to make people realise that the boycott was not enough.
- The boycott and Paul Stephenson's other work influenced the government to make a change.
- In 1965 and 1968, new laws were passed that said people of colour could not be treated unfairly.
Common misconception
Some may think that only Paul Stephenson's actions directly led to the 1965 law.
Paul's actions had an impact as did many other people's in the 1960s.
Keywords
Bus conductor - a person who works on a bus collecting tickets is called a bus conductor
Laws - laws are rules that everyone in a country has to follow
Government - the government are people in charge of running a country and they decide the laws that everyone has to follow
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