Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy-handed police action and a "probably unconstitutional" ban on picketing averted a crisis, Eisenman stated. But city merchants, who had unanimously refused to integrate, are still suffering heavy losses from a Negro boycott, he said...
...Committee decided last year, after a 17-7-1 season ended with some embarrassing losses, that Harvard should boycott the NCAA playoffs that led to the national tournament. No reason for the action was given; the press was left to supply the creditable but "unofficial" explanation that the Administration objected to the unfair recruiting of Canadian-dominated Western opposing teams. Because the Crimson team would have had it rough in the tourney, the tardy and unexplained decision looked like sour grapes...
Pressman said that the Boston demonstration was only one of at least 12 being staged in major cities across the country. The Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Atlanta, Ga., had asked the Boston EPIC group, which last year led a boycott against the Woolworth chain, to join in the "second stage" of protesting against segregation practices...
...court order was still being treated with legalized contempt. At the William Frantz school, where as many as 23 white students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster. At McDonogh 19 the white boycott was complete; the only students were three little Negro first-graders. Then one day the boycott seemed to crack. Gregory Thompson, 10, reported to McDonogh 19. A couple of days later, Greg's brother Michael, 8, walked to school with...
Neither the Thompson boys nor their father John, 33, were particularly concerned with the scrap over school integration. Alabama-reared John Thompson had moved his family of seven into the McDonogh 19 school district after the boycott began, joined his neighbors in sending his boys on the long bus ride to the lily-white schools of St. Bernard Parish. Then Thompson noticed that Greg was reading from the same primer he had used the year before in Alabama, where "the schools ain't too far ahead." And one rainy day the school bus driver bawled the boys...