Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City citizens, almost all of them white, who are determined to block the Board of Education's experimental program for breaking down de facto segregation. Getting the school year off to an angry start, they stunned the nation's largest system with its third massive boycott in eight months...
...York City's public schools have 1,000,000 students, 43% of them Negro and Puerto Rican and the rest white. More than 275,000 students stayed home on the first day of last week's boycott, as 2,000 sign-waving pickets ("We'd rather fight than switch") massed at 125 schools; on the second day the number slipped to 233,000. During Negro-led boycotts last February and March, aimed at pressuring the school board into desegregation, 464,000 and 268,000-students stayed...
Still, after the boycott, most of the newly transferred white and Negro students went peaceably to school. Pledged Superintendent Gross: "We are going ahead with our plans without the slightest change...
...crusade unleashed on Aug. 19 by the National Farmers Organization (estimated membership: 100,000) in 23 states. Hatched by N.F.O. President Oren Lee Staley, 41, onetime Missouri farmer turned big-league farm organizer, the scheme called for thousands of livestock men to withhold their products in a massive market boycott that would eventually boost meat prices all over the U.S. Then, as Staley planned it, he would negotiate longterm, high-priced contracts with meat packers on behalf of legions of farmers. Staley had tried the same thing in 1959, 1961 and 1962 and failed; as soon as prices climbed slightly...
Still smarting from those experiences, N.F.O. adherents this time set out to make their boycott stick. Besides Bonduel, the Midwest has recently counted many deeds of destruction. Barns have burned in the night, livestock buying stations have been bombed, truck drivers have been stopped and threatened at road blocks, roadside snipers have fired out of the dark at speeding trucks, and at least one market-bound highway route has been sabotaged with a plank bristling with broken sickle blades. In Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota there is talk of calling out the National Guard...