Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embattled New Orleans, where one school is integrated, a third-grade white boy peacefully broke the total white boycott at another, McDonogh No. 19. To aid many city teachers, who went unpaid because the segregationist state legislature froze school funds, Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison asked people to pay property taxes not due until May, quickly got enough to pay salaries in full for January...
...Tunis, the "provisional" F.L.N. government headed by Premier Ferhat Abbas made the first offer. Claiming that the massive Moslem boycott of De Gaulle's referendum in Algeria proved the "obvious authority" of the F.L.N., Ferhat Abbas announced that he was ready "to begin negotiations with the French government" for the long-awaited solution to the Algerian problem...
...they didn't manage to unseat Munoz Marin, and de Gaulle's proposal to subsidize parochial schools (a sharp break with French secular tradition) is mostly fodder for hard shell baptists. But the Bakimore YMCA, which denied space for a birth control clinic because the Church threatened to boycott the United Fund Appeal, like the Santa Fe Mexican who was threatened with excommunication if her son attended a non-parochial school, suggest the perpetual abuses of an authoritarian church...
Tall and solemn, De Gaulle marched on until he reached the mass of apathetic Moslems, who might boycott De Gaulle's projected referendum or be coerced into voting no. His presence set them wild with delight. Moslem men roared "Vive De Gaulle!" Moslem women tried to kiss his hand. A small Moslem boy gave De Gaulle everything he had-his sodden luncheon sandwich. For nearly a quarter of an hour, De Gaulle was literally lost in a sea of grinning, cheering faces. To make sure no harm could come to him, the Moslems formed a compact mass and escorted...
...legal struggle went against segregation, the fury of the mob outside the schools increased. The taunts grew more venomous. Husky men began to appear, ominously and silently, among the jeering women. The first to run the white boycott at William Frantz School was the Rev. Lloyd A. Foreman, 34, a Methodist minister. Walking his small daughter into the school, Foreman was shoved by the mob. "Don't touch me," he snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle...