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
St Scholastica Day riot Spryngeheuse and Chesterfield, allegedly assaulting the mayor and others. As the situation escalated, locals from the surrounding countryside poured in, crying: "Havac! Havoc! Smyt fast, give gode knocks!" A riot broke out and lasted two days, which left 63 students and perhaps 30 locals dead. The students were eventually routed. The dispute was eventually settled in favour of the University, when a special charter was created. Annually thereafter, on 10 February the saint's day of St Scholastica, the mayor and councillors had to march bareheaded through the streets, attend Mass, and pay to the university a fine of one penny