Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of the Mississippi Negroes. Ellen Lake '66, who worked on community organization and voter registration in Gulfport, told of organizing "block captains" there to lead integration, in opposition to more conservative factions like the Negro ministry. She said that the withholding of official COFO support from a bus boycott that Gulfport Negroes were planning only increased their determination to carry it out; and she commented that such independence and initiative was a sign that within Mississippi there is the potential for leading the nation...
...latest Minnesota poll, published by the Minneapolis Tribune, shows Lyndon Johnson leading Barry Goldwater by an amazing 74% to 22% in the state. MacGregor thus suffers from identification on the ticket with Goldwater. At the same time, a diehard segment of Goldwaterites in his district threatens to boycott MacGregor because he was a strong supporter of Bill Scranton at San Francisco...
Shaw: School reopened here after being closed due to a boycott. Two Negro students who joined in the boycott denied re-admission...
...mounted police moved in to break up a riot. When the Union Jack was hauled down from the Valletta parade-ground flagpole, vehement boos were mixed with the crowd's cheers. Ex-Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's opposition Malta Labor Party even went so far as to boycott the opening session of the islands' Parliament - in which it holds nearly one-third of the seats...
...York City boycott totals include a presumed 100,000 legitimately absent...