Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parts of the Deep South, Ford, Falstaff and Philip Morris have been nicknamed "The Three Fs" and made the targets of an extraordinary whispering campaign and economic boycott. The charge: they have aided the cause of Negro equality. But the boycott movement goes far beyond the phonetic Fs and, as practiced by both whites and Negroes, has spread to nearly a score of other companies. Most of the affected companies are reluctant to discuss the subject. Says the general manager of the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Birmingham: "I could tell you a whole lot about...
...Alabama dealer says his sales are off 50%, attributes part of that drop to the boycott. Says he: "If somebody says something about it-even a friend-and you deny it, they just smile at you." Adds W. M. Turner, a dealer in Selma, Ala.: "The criticism of the whites-and I'm sur prised at some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting...
Thousands of Negroes in Montgomery, Alabama, are engaged in one of the most significant experiments in U.S. race relations as they continue their so-called "passive resistance" campaign against the segregation laws on city busses. Now over three months old, the boycott represents a dramatically new technique in this country's race problem...
Even if America's past, including especially Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," presents precedents for the Montgomery boycott, the deeper inspiration for the current campaign is clearly India's Gandhi. For here was a man who dramatized the technique of non-violent civil disobedience and used it as a weapon against three powerful forces: first in the fight against racial intolerance in the Union South Africa from 1906 to 1915; then in the struggle against the British which lasted until independence in 1947; and finally, until his assassination in 1948, in an heroic and saintly attempt to bring peace...
...spinning and his marches all were attuned to what he knew the Indians would respond to. Satyagraha, under Gandhi's quiet leadership, was hard to stop, for in the minds of Indians, he had effectively changed Truth into Action. When the leaders and supporters of the Montgomery boycott plan the rest of their current campaign, a few additional thoughts on Gandhi's Satyagraha--its strength, its limited goals, its constructive service, and above all, its firm yet flexible leader--might be in order...