Our Journey 

Episode 6 - In this final episode of Our Journey we pay tribute to the St Paul's Carnival the first of its kind in the UK. We hear from the Europe’s 1st Black elected Mayor Marvin Rees, founders Roy Hackett and Barbara Dettering. Poet Miles Chambers takes us on a journey of the history of St Pauls Carnival and the phenomenon of Bristol's music culture which is world renowned.

Our Journey is a 6-part series celebrating activism, determination and civil rights.

In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person, nearly 10 years later American civil rights groups were fighting for employment and racial equality, South Africa was in the grip of the Apartheid movement and Nelson Mandela had just been sentenced to life in prison.

Whilst in the UK it was legal to racially discriminate.

This series tells the story of the UK’s 1st Black civil rights campaigns, The Bristol Bus Boycott and the influences the then had on the UK.

We hear the stories and journeys of some of the original pioneers and settlers we have come to know as the Windrush Generation describing their compelling and often shocking stories of their arrival and their first years in the UK.

We also hear from experts and historians about the impact and significance it had then and today. As well as original activists Roy Hackett, Paul Stephenson, Guy Bailey and Barbara Dettering plus archive content.

Our Journey is a Sound Women South West Network Production produced and presented by Miranda Rae and the Sound Editor was Keziah Wenham-Kenyon.

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