50th anniversary of bus boycott
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Bristol bus boycott. It was called when the Bristol Bus Company refused to employ black drivers and conductors.
Full report: 50th anniversary of bus boycott
It's 50 years since Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech - and here, it's fifty years since campaigners won their fight against the racist rules of a bus company.
On August 28th 1963 the Bristol Omnibus Company stopped its ban on black and Asian workers.
But how much have attitudes really changed? Robert Murphy reports:
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