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Roy Hackett (1928–2022) was a British civil rights activist and an organiser of the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963.[1]
Hackett was born in Jamaica in 1928 and grew up in Trench Town, a neighbourhood of Kingston. Working as an insurance broker, he was unable to feed himself, and in 1952, sailed to the U.K., encouraged, he said, by a speech given by Enoch Powell in Kingston, Jamaica, that encouraged Jamaican people to migrate to Britain. He arrived in Liverpool and lived in London and Wolverhampton before settling in Bristol in 1956.
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- ^ Andrews, Kehinde (6 August 2020). "Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- Mukena, Rema (9 October 2020). "Roy Hackett has been awarded an MBE by the Queen". Bristol Post. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- Dabydeen, David; Gilmore, John; Jones, Cecily, eds. (2007). The Oxford companion to Black British history. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0192804396.
- Mohdin, Aamna (3 August 2022). "Bristol bus boycott campaigner Roy Hackett dies at 93". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- White, Nadine (3 August 2022). "Roy Hackett: Civil rights hero and anti-racism campaigner dies aged 93". The Independent. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- "Bristol bus boycott organiser Roy Hackett dies aged 93". BBC News. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- Kelly, Jon (27 August 2013). "What was behind the Bristol bus boycott?". BBC News. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- "Roy Hackett obituary". The Times. 8 August 2022. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- Davison, Phil (5 August 2022). "Roy Hackett, British civil rights pioneer, dies at 93". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 August 2022.