This politician made a breakthrough in British race relations by winning a tort law case against Imperial Hotels, London, for refusing to lodge him for more than a night on discriminatory racial grounds. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Trinidadian lawyer and politician who became the UK’s first Black peer after the conclusion of his career as a cricketer for the West Indies, for whom he took their first ever Test wicket.
ANSWER: Learie Constantine [or Learie Nicholas Constantine or Baron Constantine; prompt on Connie]
[10e] As the first Trinidadian High Commissioner in London, Constantine raised awareness about a 1963 nonviolent protest of this sort in Bristol that was inspired by one undertaken in Montgomery, Alabama.
ANSWER: bus boycott [accept Bristol bus boycott or Montgomery bus boycott; prompt on boycott]
[10m] Constantine led a group of Black Britons that lobbied the Attlee government for the end of this world leader’s forced exile in London, which was imposed due to his interracial marriage to Englishwoman Ruth Williams.
ANSWER: Seretse Khama [or Sir Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri Khama]
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