Lurel Roy Hackett MBE [1] (19 September 1928 – 2 August 2022) was a Jamaican-born activist and long-time civil rights campaigner for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. [2]

Four young West Indian men, Roy Hackett, Owen Henry, Audley Evans and Prince Brown, formed an action group, later to be called the West Indian Development Council. They were unhappy with the lack of progress in fighting discrimination by the West Indian Association.

Four young West Indian men, Roy Hackett, Owen Henry, Audley Evans and Prince Brown, formed a campaigning group, later to be called the West Indian Development Council to fight the blatant discrimination.

In May 1963 a group of young West Indians, Roy Hackett, Guy Bailey, Prince Brown and Owen Henry, led by British born Paul Stephenson organised a boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company for refusing to employ Black and Asian bus crews.

Aug 5, 2022 · As a young man in Jamaica, Roy worked odd jobs before becoming part of the Island Traffic Authority as a traffic warden. His experiences with racism and discrimination while working with traffic police helped fuel his desire to fight for justice and equality later in his life.

Aug 6, 2022 · This spurred a group of young black activists, including Roy Hackett (Ena’s husband), Owen Henry, Audley Evans, and Prince Brown, to form the West Indian Development Council (WIDC) to advocate for black rights in Bristol.

Oct 18, 2023 · In the early months of 1963, four young men, Roy Hackett, Owen Henry, Audley Evans and Prince Brown, came together to form an action group. Their spokesperson was Paul Stephenson. The initial problem was to prove that the colour bar existed, and that was where Guy Bailey came in, a Black Boys Brigade officer.

Aug 3, 2022 · Civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett, described as a "humble freedom fighter", has died at the age of 93. Mr Hackett was one of the organisers of the Bristol Bus Boycott, a successful campaign to...

Roy Hackett is the Jamaican born co-founder of the Commonwealth Co-ordinated Committee (CCC) which was started 1962. From 1968-79 the CCC set up and ran the St. Paul's Festival. The event has since been renamed St. Paul's Afrikan Caribbean Carnival.

In 1952 Roy Hackett immigrated to England from Jamaica, on arrival he was astonished how unwelcoming the British were to the people of the commonwealth, according to Hackett “You couldn’t go into pubs in Bristol on your own, not if you were black”.