Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national boycott of Christmas proposed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is the most ambitious attempt to engage the nation's sympathy yet considered by Negro leaders. They apparently fear that, without an incessant and continued civil rights offensive, the enthusiasm of the Washington march will dissipate into faint murmurs of individual protest. In their fears they are probably justified. In their recommendations, however, they have moved to an entirely inappropriate extreme which would only alienate the community respect they have so deservedly gained...
...intimacy of their own cozy dining rooms during South House lunches. Because of these immediate difficulties, a number of students have opposed the plan without giving it a fair trial. In fact, today, just one week after the beginning of the experiment, the residents of Bertram Hall will boycott it by taking box lunches or eating in the Graduate Center. Radcliffe meals are far from perfect, and Bertram's opposition to this attempt to improve them--like other complants at this early stage--is short-sighted and selfish...
...This feeling certainly includes the belt's major city-and state capital-of Montgomery (pop. 134,000), which prides itself on its wide avenues, colonnaded houses, and its devotion to the cause of segregation. It was in Montgomery that Martin Luther King Jr. seven years ago won a boycott-battle to integrate the city's buses; yet today Montgomery whites contentedly point out that most Negroes still sit in the rear of buses because "that's where they like to ride...
Fortnight ago, the government submitted the constitution to a national referendum, announced a landslide (98%) majority for approval. But in the Kabylia mountains east of Algiers, fiercely independent Berbers staged a surprisingly effective boycott. Disappointed because Ben Bella has done little for their war-shattered region, and egged on by Marxist sympathizing Deputy Hussein Ait-Ahmed, who recently broke with Ben Bella, more than 50% of the half-million Kabylia voters stayed away from the polls. Said one Berber ex-guerrilla: "Independence? All we have got from it is the national flag...
...last May's African "summit conference" in Addis Ababa, South Africa's neighbors called for an economic boycott, to include the banning of South African aircraft from airports and airspace. By last week an air curtain had closed African skies to South African Airways, whose proud symbol is a winged springbok, forcing its planes into a tortuous detour...