Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succession of ugly incidents. Local police wantonly assaulted a peaceable platoon of Negro pickets; sheriff's deputies broke up a civil rights fund-raising dance with tear gas. Though more than 250 of their number were arrested on various charges, the Negroes persisted in their S.C.L.C.-backed boycott of local white merchants. And when a federal court, acting last month on a Justice Department suit, ordered Grenada's Lizzie Horn Elementary School and John Rundle High School to grant admission to any Negroes requesting it, 300 of 1.378 eligible Negro children registered...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
...demands for the Negro in the ghetto. "How much do you have to show your 'black bourgeoisie' board member," asked Rusk, "before he decides that it's about time to shelve his old, comfortable image of the Urban League, which didn't picket, boycott or organize strikes...
...famous Selma march and made frequent trips to Mississippi to carry food, books and clothing to civil rights workers. Before the picketing of Judge Cannon's home, he had become well known in Milwaukee-and earned a reprimand from his ecclesiastical superiors-for organizing a four-day boycott of public schools to protest de facto segregation...
John Lennon's comments about the relative popularity of Jesus Christ and the Beatles (TIME, Aug. 12) proved less than consequential except in the South. Kids and disk jockeys built bonfires of Beatles' records and artifacts, and 20 Texas radio stations maintained a Beatle boycott. During the Beatles' only personal appearance below the Mason-Dixon line, in Memphis, a Christian Youth Rally was scheduled simultaneously. The free-admission protest exhibition drew more than 8,000 people; the Beatles (in two performances) pulled 20,128 at $5.50 a head...