Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live peacefully in Frankfurt, and our boy attends the local school, where his teachers and classmates are very friendly." But Witness Kaufmann did not get off so easily. Neighbors no longer even nodded to him or his family. The tires on his trucks were slashed and a boycott of his building-materials business cost him so many customers that he was finally forced to close it down...
...Arab world from Cairo to Damascus to Jidda broke into shrill cries of rage. Hurriedly calling delegates from many Mideast countries for an emergency meeting, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (membership: 2,000,000) gave the New York pickets a week to halt their boycott. "Unless they unload Cleopatra by that time, we will do the same thing to American ships in all Arab ports," said a top official. Sure enough, at the zero hour, Alexandria dockers resoundingly proclaimed, "In the name of Allah and Arabism, we Arab workers by Allah's blessing start our boycott...
Nasser was getting wide support even from his rivals in the Arab world. Tunisia, Jordan and Iraq unions backed the boycott. U.S. commerce would suffer slightly and Nasser's United Arab Republic stood to lose some badly needed machinery and wheat. In Manhattan, the federal courts had refused to interfere, and on Pier 16 the pickets trudged on, ignoring a plea from the State Department that such "an effort by a private group to apply pressure publicly with a view to bringing about shifts in the policies of foreign governments is embarrassing to our government's foreign relations...
...Little Rock and Atlanta, placard-carrying students picketed downtown department stores, urging a boycott until lunch counters are open to both whites and Negroes...
...lunch-counter demonstration. A dozen white students from the University of Minnesota arrived in Nashville to help the sit-in movement. At the request of Negro students, top labor chieftains, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, signed cards pledging themselves to boycott store chains that refuse to serve Negroes at lunch counters in the South.* Students from Harvard, M.I.T. and half a dozen other New England colleges met in Plainfield. Vt. to map a program for supporting the sit-in movement...