Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Farmer last night called for a Christmas shopping boycott on retail stores that practice racial discrimination in employment. Farmer spoke before the Ford Hall Forum in Boston...
Modifying the proposals of James Baldwin and other Negro leaders for a general boycott of Christmas, the national director of CORE said that such a boycott would put stores with discriminatory employment practices at no real disadvantage, "A boycott does not work unless it is specific, unless it pinches some where," he said...
...arrest of an independent chief and Ben Bella critic, leftist Mohammed Boudiaf. Repairing to his Kabylia village of Michelet, Aït Ahmed formed a tiny, clandestine party, the Front of Socialist Forces. With hardly any difficulty, the F.S.F. convinced over half the voters in Kabylia to boycott last month's referendums that rubber-stamped Ben Bella's one-party constitution and his nomination for President...
Segregation in the North is much more "intricate and irrational," Wakefield said. Commenting on the proposed boycott of Christmas shopping, he said that it would be bad "if the integration movement were to become more segregated...
Where the clergy has decided on open action, it has often achieved small but significant victories. In Seattle, clergymen helped win a fair share of jobs for Negroes at the Bon Marche, the city's largest department store, by organizing a buyers' boycott and a freedom march on the store, then negotiating with the management. In Boston, one local baking company agreed to hire more Negroes after ministers backed a "selected patronage" campaign from their pulpits, helped dent the company's bread sales...