Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those at the meeting felt that the administration might consider a boycott an "unauthorized demonstration" and so decided, at least for the present, to let the various campus organs of student government discuss the problems with the administration...
South Africa's white supremacy government prepared yesterday to end all bus service to several Johannesburg Negro townships by tonight. More than 40,000 nonwhites appeared determined to defy demands that they end their 52-days-old mass boycott of the city's transportation system, while armed police stood by amid rumors of big demonstrations in Negro areas...
...have no vote. We have no rights," said an African Congress spokesman. "The boycott is our political weapon, and no law on earth can make us ride if we want to walk...
Conducted, like its Montgomery counterpart, in a scrupulous spirit of nonviolence, the boycott was taken up on other Johannesburg bus lines, spread to Pretoria and to Port Elizabeth. If Bloemfontein joins in as expected, the number of won't-riders will soon be more than...
...refused to let the workers ride, on the grounds that tickets for all available seats had already been sold, and hundreds of walking Negroes were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses. "We must smash this boycott," said Transport Minister Ben Schoeman. "It's only a test by the African National Congress of its power. If they want a showdown, they'll get it." But when one big Johannesburg chain store, accepting the government's get-tough advice, threatened to fire three Negroes...