Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local chapter of the NAACP. However, none of the local Negroes have much knowledge of political tactics or ideas, and, what's more, every local leader is deeply dependent upon the white community for economic security. Right after the sit-ins the colored community did manage to organize a boycott of all stores in town which do not employ Negroes. The only hitch was that after a week or so people grew weary of shopping in Wilmington and informally dissolved the boycott, having gained nothing...
...Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led the first great non-violent struggle in the modern "era of integration." The Montgomery bus boycott lasted several weeks; in the end after King's home was bombed and demonstrators were jailed, the Negroes won the right to sit in the front of the buses...
...weary cops. And Martin Luther King appeared before his followers to say: "We will turn America upside down in order that it turn right side up." Birmingham had already been upset-and all but overturned. Downtown mer chants, plagued for more than a year by a Negro boycott that was 90% effective, saw their profits plunging even more because of the demonstrations. Birmingham's racist reputation had long been bad enough to frighten away potential industry; rioting by King's forces would further scar the city's image. And, despite the headline-hogging prominence of such racists...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 16--Tension eased in this racially disturbed steel city today as business life in the downtown district appeared to be returning to normal. Although there were reports of a white boycott, a spot check of some of the downtown department stores showed business was running from good to subnormal...
...naturally-Yueh Chin, or the S.S. Leap Forward. With almost as much fanfare as when she was launched, the Leap Forward sailed from Tsingtao last week with the first cargo shipped from China to Japan since the two countries signed a recent trade agreement ending their five-year official boycott of each other's goods. Then, half way across the East China Sea one afternoon last week, the Leap Forward suddenly radioed for help. Four hours later, the pride of China's merchant fleet lay on the ocean floor...