Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thereby giving the tracks another $3,300,000 a year for purses. When the state assembly adjourned without even reporting it out of committee, the horsemen struck. For some, struggling to get their horses ready for big stakes such as the Kentucky Derby, only four weeks away, the boycott was a severe training setback. But horsemen insisted that the principle was worth the price. Said Johnny Nerud, who trains two top Derby prospects: "The people up in Albany will learn that we are not running an illegal crap game in a circus tent but a big business...
Rustin was Deputy Director of the 1963 March on Washington and chief organizer of the New York City school boycott on February 3, 1964. He has been arrested 24 times in connection with civil rights protests...
...Kansas, angry farmers spoke of a "tractor march" on Washington. Across the Midwest, the 250,000-member National Farmers Union planned to boycott auto and farm-equipment makers because of high equipment prices. In 25 states, farmers who earlier this month were selling off some of their breeding stock to avert a threatened oversupply of pigs and calves, last week began dumping milk to drive up prices by 20 a quart...
...ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit to take a better-paying...
...professors would somehow secure leniency for the accused leaders. But March 13 was an incredible day of instruction: the fiction of legalism ended for even the most moderate students, and by the middle of the afternoon the former president of the Conservative Society was proposing a sit-in and boycott "until the suspensions are rescinded...