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Year 2

Paul Stephenson's legacy in Bristol and Britain

I can explain how Paul Stephenson's actions had an impact, not just in Bristol, but across Britain.

New
New
Year 2

Paul Stephenson's legacy in Bristol and Britain

I can explain how Paul Stephenson's actions had an impact, not just in Bristol, but across Britain.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In the month after the boycott, Raghbir Singh became Bristol's first bus conductor who was a person of colour.
  2. However, Paul Stephenson continued to fight against the way people of colour were being treated.
  3. This is why he went into The Bay Horse pub; he wanted to make people realise that the boycott was not enough.
  4. The boycott and Paul Stephenson's other work influenced the government to make a change.
  5. In 1965 and 1968, new laws were passed that said people of colour could not be treated unfairly.

Common misconception

Some may think that only Paul Stephenson's actions directly led to the 1965 law.

Paul's actions had an impact as did many other people's in the 1960s.

Keywords

  • Bus conductor - a person who works on a bus collecting tickets is called a bus conductor

  • Laws - laws are rules that everyone in a country has to follow

  • Government - the government are people in charge of running a country and they decide the laws that everyone has to follow

It might be helpful to use a timeline to plot Paul's actions and see links between them.
Teacher tip

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Paul Stephenson and others started a boycott of buses in…
London
Correct answer: Bristol
Scotland
Q2.
What is a boycott?
someone who works for the government
Correct answer: when people refuse to buy or use something as a protest
Q3.
Black families in Bristol could only find paid jobs in the 1960s.
Correct answer: low
high
Q4.
Bristol’s bus companies would only let people work for them.
Correct Answer: white
Q5.
Lots of people joined in with the Bristol Bus Boycott.
Correct answer: True
False
Q6.
What year was the Bristol Bus Boycott?
2023
2003
Correct answer: 1963
1903

6 Questions

Q1.
Match the job title to the correct description.
Correct Answer:bus conductor,collects the tickets on a bus

collects the tickets on a bus

Correct Answer:politician,works in the government

works in the government

Correct Answer:bus driver,drives the bus

drives the bus

Q2.
The Bristol Bus Boycott was a success.
Correct answer: True
False
Q3.
Raghbir Singh was the first bus on the Bristol buses who was a person of colour.
driver
Correct answer: conductor
passenger
Q4.
Paul Stephenson walked into The Bay Horse in 1964.
Correct Answer: pub
Q5.
In 1965, the British government finally made a new...
Correct Answer: law
Q6.
After 1965, nobody in Britain was allowed to be treated differently because of their...
Correct answer: skin colour
name
job

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