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Roy Hackett (1928–2022) was a British civil rights activist and an organiser of the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963.

Hackett was born in Jamaica in 1928 and grew up in Trench Town, a neighbourhood of Kingston. Working as an insurance broker, he was unable to feed himself, and in 1952, sailed to the U.K., encouraged, he said, by a speech given by Enoch Powell in Kingston, Jamaica, that encouraged Jamaican people to migrate to Britain. He arrived in Liverpool and lived in London and Wolverhampton before settling in Bristol in 1956.