One of Bristol’s pioneers Lurel Roy Hackett has been awarded an MBE by the Queen for his outstanding services and contribution to Bristol.
He is one the oldest members of the Bristol Race Equality Council (1965 -2005), which was the first of its kind in the country.
The exceptional list of winners is normally announced in June, but this year the event was pushed back to enable nominations of those who went above and beyond in the early months of the crisis.
Listed are also care home workers, nurses, doctors, firefighters and headteachers.
But, this is not the first time Mr Hackett has achieved this kind of accolade - in 1993 he received Maundy Money from the Queen at Bristol Cathedral.
And this year, he was recognised for how he helped shape the city of Bristol, including his fight for racial equality and discrimination against Black people in the 1963.
This was when a revolution took place in which Roy Hackett, Owen Henry, Audley Evans, Paul Stephenson and Prince Brown fought against Bristol Omnibus Company who refused to hire Black bus drivers.
Earlier this year, a petition went up for a statue of Mr Hackett to be erected in the place of the Colston statue which was taken down by protesters.
