While the civil rights marches and bus boycotts took place in the Southern States of the states of the US, in Bristol in 1963 black workers had to fight their own campaign for equal rights to employment on the city’s buses. This is the story of a small group of black workers whose fight for their rights in the face of the outright opposition, disinterest and misunderstanding of the bus company, the union, churches and the city council, was to make national headlines. Madge Dresser’s detailed narrative, based on interviews with participants, gives a real sense of how a struggle that starts small can help to transform a whole political landscape.
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