St Pauls, Bristol the British African-Caribbean community organised the Bristol Bus Boycott to protest against the racist employment policy of the Bristol Omnibus Company which operated a colour bar, refusing employment to non-white workers as bus crews. This policy was overturned in August of that year after sixty days of protest and the action helped establish the Race Relations Act 1968. A riot followed a police raid on the Black and White Café in St Pauls on 2 April 1980. The St Pauls riot started when the police entered the Black and White Café, knowing that the premises was being used for drug
The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy (also known by the shorter title of The Tanks That Broke the Ranks) is a 1916 song written jointly by Harry Castling and Harry Carlton. The song was composed as a promotional song for the-then new Tank, which had been first used during the First World War, and were regarded with interest and awe by both sides when they were first deployed. It is written to the jaunty tune of a music hall hit of a few years earlier "The man who