Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faltered throughout 90 days of personal sacrifice and economic hardship. Since December 5th, when a 42-year old Negro seamstress was convicted under Alabama law for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, the city's 65,000 Negroes have carried out a bus boycott that has been virtually one hundred percent effective...
...pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration possible in the Deep South in the foreseeable future, nonetheless has given full coverage to the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses (TIME, Jan. 16). It has devoted columns to interviews with leaders of the boycott, also ran a story showing that the first-come, first-seated policy demanded by the Negroes was already working in many Southern cities, including some in Alabama...
...conscious policy of the HYRC president of urging Republican speakers to boycott the Political Forum is clear from the facts alone. In the fall, Thomson urged Senator Bricker not to speak before the Political Forum since, according to Thomson, the Senator's audience would be "stacked greatly against" the Bricker Amendment. Bricker subsequently turned the Forum invitation down, but claimed that he "didn't pay any attention" to Thomson's plea. For his second effort to undermine the Political Forum, Thomson found somebody in Washington who admitted paying attention. Apparently, Thomson's pressure on the Chairman of the national...
...more than 50 days the Negroes of Montgomery, Ala. have boycotted the city buses, protesting segregated transportation (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Montgomery's Mayor W. A. Gayle reacted in a way that showed how much the boycott-95% effective-was hurting. He first announced that he and his fellow members of the City Commission had joined the extremist White Citizens' Council. Then he announced a policy of no surrender on the boycott: "We have pussyfooted around on this boycott long enough and it has come time to be frank and honest. There seems to be a belief...
...boycott's economic punch has been staggering, because the 25,000 Negroes who ordinarily ride Montgomery's buses make up some 75% of the company's patronage. Company officials refused to reveal the size of their losses, because "that's exactly what they want to know...