Paul Stephenson obituary

Civil rights activist who organised the Bristol bus boycott, paving the way for the Race Relations Act of 1965In 1964 it was still legal in the UK to refuse service on the basis of someone’s skin colour. Signs saying “No blacks, no Irish, no dogs” were commonplace in pubs and the windows of boarding houses, creating a hostile environment for Black people. The civil rights activist Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87, played a key role in events that led to the Race Relations