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HISTORICAL FACTS: Uk civil rights campaigner roy hackett dies at 93 - Caught on Camera

Roy Hackett coordinated the famous Bristol bus boycott [Screen grab/ Youtube]

Roy Hackett, a prominent civil rights campaigner in the UK, has died at the age of 93.

Hackett campaigned for the civil rights of ethnic minorities in the southern English city of Bristol during the 1960s and coordinated the famous Bristol bus boycott against the ban on employing ethnic minorities as bus drivers and conductors.

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