Further Career
In the following year Stephenson achieved national prominence when he refused to leave a public house without being served. He was charged with failing to leave a licensed premises and was tried in a magistrate's court. The case was dismissed and the barman was dismissed by his employers.
Following this, he left Bristol to work in Coventry as a Senior Community Relations Officer. In 1972 he went to London to work for the Commission for Racial Equality. He was appointed to the Sports Council in 1975 and campaigned prominently against sporting contacts with apartheid South Africa. Stephenson became honorary president of Bristol's West Indian Parents' Association in 1979 and in 1981 was appointed to the Press Council. On his return to live in Bristol in 1992, he helped set up the Bristol Black Archives Partnership, which "protects and promotes the history of African-Caribbean people in Bristol."
Read more about this topic: Paul Stephenson (civil Rights Campaigner)
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