Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever

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When he arrived in the UK in 1952, he faced vicious racism – and decided to fight back. In the first of a new series, he tells the story of the Bristol boycott

, near Birmingham, where the council was still refusing to rent houses to immigrants; in the previous year’s general election, the Conservative candidate had won with the unofficial slogan: “If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour,” and crosses had been burned in front of people’s homes.

 

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We know a song about that!

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Heroic! Levels of racism must have been off the scale in those days

I am delighted to see that we have to go back over 60 years to find examples of racism in Britain......

But did he change it for the better? Doesn't seem to have

And now we have knife killings, terrorism, people murdered in parks by migrants, mass rape by racist Asian taxi drivers.....quite a lot of blood on his hands, this tosser.

Hi, I made a video on this last week! would be great if you could watch or re tweet!

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