Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foggy, warm morning last week, the Negro boycott against the Montgomery, Ala. city bus lines came to an end-381 days after it began. The Negroes had won their fight: they rode unsegregated on buses in the Confederacy's birthplace. Desegregation still had a long way to go, but after Montgomery, Jim Crow would never again be quite the same...
...boycott started as a spectacular protest against the arrest (TIME, Jan. 16) of Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, for refusing to move from the white section of a bus. It ended soon after U.S. District Court Clerk Robert Dodson received official notice that the Supreme Court had refused a rehearing on its earlier ruling against bus segregation in Montgomery. That afternoon Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal held a closed meeting of his 159 officers, quietly told them that desegregation would begin immediately. That night the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the levelheaded boycott leader, told his fellow Negroes...
...check for $22,500 (and when Editor Norman Cousins offered to have papers drawn up, replied: "We shook hands, didn't we?"). Later, when Cousins turned up in Dallas to speak at a meeting of the pacifist Society of Friends, local right-wingers tried to set up a boycott, went to Mr. De for support. Snapped he: "You'll see my answer in the morning papers." In the morning paper was the news that he would introduce Cousins at the Friends gathering...
...indicate their reasonableness, agreed to "suspend" their demand for Nagy's return. But when Kadar proved unwilling to make any real concessions, they began to fight back. Angered by his refusal to allow them to publish a paper, the Budapest Workers' Council exhorted all Hungarians to boycott the government press. Ominously strike leaders warned Kadar that his obduracy might force them to plunge the country into "total anarchy...
...relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour's main aim: to publicize Britain's ties with her East African territories...