Word: boycotters
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Martin Luther King was first quoted in TIME in 1956 (March 5), when he was leading the boycott ("This is a struggle between justice and injustice") that eventually ended bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala. This is his third appearance on the cover-the first having been in 1957 (Feb. 18) and the second as our Man of the Year on the first issue of 1964. That choice and story brought us 2,500 letters, more than half of them criticizing our judgment, but all showing the intense interest and involvement TIME readers feel in the issue of race relations...
...youngest man and the first non-New Yorker ever to run the New York system. His luck, which had always been good, deserted him from the first: at once he faced the threat of a citywide strike by the muscle-prone United Federation of Teachers and a massive school boycott by civil rights leaders. Gross resolved to "deal with the system on its own terms, until I know my way around and know where the traps...
...over themselves in their hurry to help out. Police all but urged upon King a permit to parade the five blocks to the county courthouse from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where King was pastor when he first made a national name for himself as leader of a bus boycott (TIME cover...
...meantime, Jagan fumes that the elections were an "imperialist plot" to oust him. His People's Party, which still controls 24 of the Assembly's 53 seats, continues to boycott the legislature and threatens renewed violence. In the past few weeks, bands of extremists have been roaming the countryside, derailing trains, cutting telephone wires and setting scattered fires in the sugarcane fields. This week Britain's Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood is scheduled to pay his first visit to the colony, and the British Army garrison is braced for whatever else Cheddi and his followers may have...
...declined to predict official reaction to a possible student demonstration; he noted that a boycott is a "legally acceptable form of protest in a democratic country...