Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Afro-Asian members of the "club," however, will almost certainly refuse to allow South Africa to rejoin. Ghana, along with various other countries, is already boycotting South Africa goods in an attempt to get the Nationalists to change their policies and accord rights to the non-Whites. This boycott has not had much effect on the economy of South Africa; the few who have lost their jobs have been non-Whites. But loss of Commonwealth trade preferences would plunge South Africa into a depression, hitting not only the Black workers, but also the White wool and fruit farmers...
Previous successful non-violent protests no doubt encouraged the Negroes to undertake new demonstrations. Most notable of the earlier successes was the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott, which also marked the emergence of strong magnetic leadership--an essential factor in the success of any sustained social movement. In the Montgomery conflict, Martin Luther King came to embody the ethic, the youth, the drive of the Negroes' protest. Although King was not on the scent in the early...
Last week the boycott also seemed to be petering out. A few curious Africans continued to wander into hotels and restaurants to see how the white men spent their money; some brought their own lunches and merely ordered a soft drink to wash it down. But the majority showed little permanent interest in invading the expensive haunts of the whites, and Rhodesia's European colony began to realize that the economic bar was practically as effective as the color bar-and far less embarrassing to maintain. There was even a spontaneous reaction against earlier hysteria. At Kitwe, when...
...Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote." He urged the clergymen to "judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress-on my declared stands against an Ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools and against any boycott of the public schools, which I have attended myself . . . I do not speak for my church on public matters-and the church does not speak...
...into consultation with the West Germans to consider whether to retaliate by curtailing East Germany's $250 million annual trade with Bonn. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard (who is Acting Chancellor while Konrad Adenauer is vacationing on Italy's Lake Como) called on businessmen for a voluntary trade boycott...