stackyFACTSThink the UK was entirely above the segregation fray while the American South was protesting?
Think the UK was entirely above the segregation fray while the American South was protesting? Not quite. Well into the 1960s, the Bristol Omnibus Company maintained a strictly enforced, perfectly legal 'color bar' that banned Black and Asian people from working as bus crews. It took a massive, organized boycott—heavily inspired by the 1955 Montgomery protests—just to force a British transit company to admit that maybe racism wasn't a great human resources strategy.
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