A petition to replace the Edward Colston statue with one honouring civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson has now passed 20,000 signatures.
Dr Stephenson organised the Bristol bus boycott in the 1960s, which saw campaigners overturn a ban on ethnic minorities working on Bristol’s buses, and which influenced the creation of the Race Relations Act.
The petition states it is “time Bristol moves forward with its history in the slave trade, acknowledging the evil committed and how it can educate its citizens about black history”.
Source:Â bbc.com