Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richmond the Rev. Martin Luther King, echoing a suggestion by Negro Author James Baldwin, called for a nationwide boycott of Christmas-gift buying as a symbolic gesture to the six Negro children who were killed recently in Birmingham (TIME, Sept. 27). One adverse response came from Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. Said Wilkins: "I find it difficult to go against Santa Claus. I feel a good many other Americans would find it difficult also...
Residents of Bertram Hall, outraged at being sent from their own dining room into Briggs for lunch, Monday organized a boycott of the South House dining room. This effort to resist house dining appears to have collapsed, although Bertram still solidly opposes the change...
...boycott is based on the Bertram girls' conviction that their dorm is an exceptional place, that the "friendly, relaxed atmosphere at lunch is one of the nicest things about Bertram." The move to Briggs was thought inconvenient and unnecessary, and made Bertram "no better than an off-campus house...
...boycott of gifts at Christmas would certainly not be the effective economic weapon the Negro leaders claim it to be. They seem to have forgotten the very methods they have employed so successfully in the past. Selective boycotts, aimed at business which are still discriminatory, serve to isolate and to pressure recalcitrant segregationists. An indiscriminate boycott of all stores throughout the nation would only force together bigots and liberal minded businessmen into one bitterly-wrapped Christmas package. The steps that many farsighted businesses have already taken would seem totally unnoticed...
...boycott of Christmas as a moral weapon is even more inappropriate. Those who have sympathized with the civil rights movement would be torn between their children and their convictions. Children themselves would hardly understand a cause which deprived them of their toys for the sake of Negro victims in a distant Southern city. The altruistic spirit of Christmas would be trod under by a confused and contrived attempt at creating support and wearing down opponents...