A civil rights campaigner who led the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963 has died at the age of 87, his family say.
Dr Paul Stephenson OBE organised the boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic minorities working on buses in the city.
In a statement, his family said he passed away on Saturday evening after a “courageous battle” with Parkinson’s disease and dementia.
They described him as “a passionate advocate for equality, tirelessly working to dismantle the barriers of discrimination”.
Dr Stephenson, the son of an African father and white British mother, arrived in Bristol in 1962.
He organised a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company, after which its policy of discrimination was ended.
The campaign was instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act in 1965.
He was made an OBE in 2009 for his services to equal opportunities and to community relations.
