Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy enlisted man and the son of a local schoolteacher, Younge was a so-so student who preferred to make his mark as an energetic civil rights organizer. He helped run a Negro boycott of local markets, led a group that attempted to integrate the municipal swimming pool and Tuskegee's all-white First Methodist Church. Last week, just before his death, he spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station...
...Dietz said he was puzzled by the switch. "I hope they are not trying an economic boycott, and deliberately depriving their members of the privilege of buying our products," he said...
...back wages. The company will also fork over $1.5 million in pension-fund contributions. The settlement, tied to a new one-year contract, was sealed by U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Kohler Vice President Lyman C. Conger with a handshake. Despite the most extensive boycott campaign ever mounted by organized labor, the effect of the long dispute on the company was hardly shattering; Kohler today is still a leader in the industry, ranks third nationwide in annual sales...
Today both these major achievements are in trouble, partly because of inevitable changes in the world, but largely because of the willfulness of Charles de Gaulle. The operations of the Common Market are deadlocked by a French boycott; NATO faces a complete French pullout. For more than a year, the U.S. has allowed the situation to drift, on the theory that Europe was basically sound and not much was needed to be done. Now Washington is once again turning its attention to Europe and to the ties-uniquely close but uniquely complex-of kinship, common ideals and hard self-interest...
...pressure group." Once a year, in early December, U.S. Catholics rose as a body in church to say: "I condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures," and promised not to patronize theaters that consistently showed such films-a pledge that zealous priests and bishops sometimes translated into open threats of boycott. In 1954, Archbishop (now Cardinal) Ritter of St. Louis ordered his Catholics to stay away from all future shows at theaters that exhibited the Legion-denounced The French Line, starring Jane Russell...