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Paul Stephenson OBE (born 6 May 1937) is a community worker, activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. As a young social worker, in 1963 Stephenson led a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company, protesting against its refusal to employ
May 22, 2021 · His resulting arrest and trial paved the way for the first Race Relations Act in 1965. The Bristol bus boycott and Paul’s own case helped to thrust race into the national limelight and change public opinion about the treatment of black people living in Britain.
Aug 21, 2022 · Born to a British mother and West African father in Rochford in 1937, Dr Stephenson has established himself in history as a pioneer for racial equality across the UK. Aged just three, he was evacuated to a care home in Great Dunmow, where he stayed for seven years.
Oct 30, 2020 · A civil rights campaigner most commonly known for leading the Bristol Bus Boycott has had a train named in his honour to mark Black History Month. Dr Paul Stephenson OBE, 83, was the city's...
May 15, 2021 · Paul Stephenson is one of the most significant figures in the UK civil rights movement of the last 60 years. He rose to prominence as a key figure in the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963, a campaign that forced Bristol Omnibus Company to abandon its policy of only employing white conductors and drivers.
Paul Stephenson was born in 1937 and was evacuated when he was three years old because of the Second World War. He lived in the countryside for the next seven years and enjoyed paddling in streams and hunting rabbits. However, Paul was always treated differently because he was the only black child.
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Nov 7, 2017 · Paul Stephenson, the youth worker who came to Bristol and led the boycott, is set to be given a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Pride of Britain Awards, organised by the Mirror....
