21/08/2024
Norwich, GB 20 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

MARTHA WHITE, aged 99

Two years before the Rosa Parks incident, Martha was persecuted on a bus in Baton Rouge. It led to a bus boycott and inspired the Civil Rights Movement.

Roy Hackett, aged 93

Part of the Windrush generation coming to the UK from the Caribbean, he organised the Bristol Bus Boycott , which led to the first race relations legislation.