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IN THE GRIP OF CHANGE

The Caribbean and its British Diaspora

Black and White on the Buses: the 1963 Colour Bar Dispute in Bristol

Title
Black and White on the Buses: the 1963 Colour Bar Dispute in Bristol
Description
Madge Dresser’s book documents the 1963 Bristol bus boycott. The mass campaign defeated a bar imposed on Black and Asian bus crew by the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU).
Creator
Madge Dresser
Location
Bristol: Bristol Broadsides
Date
1986
Collection
Coming to England
Source
See more details on the Senate House Library catalogue
Rights
Permission for reproduction provided courtesy of Madge Dresser.

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Item Number
28
The photograph on the cover shows a black man wearing a bus driver's uniform and a white man reading the newspaper Western Daily Press with the headline 'Colour Bar War'.
The photograph on the cover shows a black man wearing a bus driver's uniform and a white man reading the newspaper Western Daily Press with the headline 'Colour Bar War'.
The photograph on the cover shows a black man wearing a bus driver's uniform and a white man reading the newspaper Western Daily Press with the headline 'Colour Bar War'.

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