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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 Black or Asian drivers or conductors.
May 22, 2021 · Paul Stephenson - The Civil rights pioneer. He had been born to a British mother and West African father in Rochford, Essex in 1937 and was determined to confront the racism he’d encountered both growing up in east London, and since arriving in Bristol as a community development officer in 1962.
Sir Paul Robert Stephenson QPM (born 26 September 1953) is a British retired police officer who was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner from 2009 to 2011. Stephenson joined the Lancashire police in 1975 and attended the Bramshill staff training course.
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.
Aug 26, 2013 · The group was galvanised by the arrival in Bristol in 1962 of a young man called Paul Stephenson.
Paul Stephenson continues to inspire me. Stories like his should be taught in our schools.#BlackHistoryMonth.
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.
Jul 13, 2020 · But what he didn’t know was that Bailey had applied for the job at the behest of local black youth worker Paul Stephenson. And Stephenson wasn’t about to take the company’s rebuttal lying down. Paul Stephenson was born to a British mother and West African father in Rochford, Essex in 1937.
Oct 30, 2020 · One of the UK's leading civil rights campaigners has had a train named in his honour. Dr Paul Stephenson organised the 1960s Bristol bus boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic ...
Paul Stephenson OBE. In 1963, inspired by the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and Martin Luther King, Paul led a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company against their refusal to employ black and Asian workers.
