Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boycott or Arizona, for its refusal to accept Martin Luther King day as a national holiday, that caused a reversal in that state's policy. The boycott and resulting isolation of South Africa for its abhorrent racial policies contributed to that country's unwillingness to begin to overturn apartheid. It is certainly true that boycotts may hurt some people not responsible for the bad policy in the first place, and for that reason some may not wish to participate in them...
...none of them possessed the combination of attributes that made Ashe a paradigm of understated reason and elegance. In 1973 Ashe went off to play in the South African Open to see if he could chip away at the foundation of apartheid. Militants in the African National Congress did not welcome the visit, castigating him as an Uncle Tom and telling him he should go home. Ashe listened and replied evenly, "Small concessions incline toward larger ones...
Ashe, the top-ranked player on the tennis circuit in 1968 and 1975, was also well known for his work against apartheid...
...supported efforts in 1970 to ban South Africa from the Davis Cup tennis tournament and was arrested in 1985 during an anti-apartheid protest at the South African Embassy in Washington...
...United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz club on a "black night" and was packed off to England by the South African police...