Paul Stephenson's legacy in Bristol and Britain | History

Starter quiz

Paul Stephenson and others started a boycott of buses in…
- London
- Bristol ✓
- Scotland
What is a boycott?
- someone who works for the government
- when people refuse to buy or use something as a protest ✓
Black families in Bristol could only find ______ paid jobs in the 1960s.
- low ✓
- high
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

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
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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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.

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.

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