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On this day, 27 August 1963, a mass meeting of 500 bus workers in Bristol, England voted to end their "colour bar" on the hiring of Black and Asian workers following a four-month boycott. A group of Caribbean migrant workers initiated the boycott in April against the bar, enforced by the TGWU union and the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company. The movement was a key factor behind the introduction of the Race Relations Act two years later which outlawed racial discrimination in public places.