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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot , which brought him to Ireland.
Charles Boycott (origin of the term boycott) Desired land reform in Ireland [citation needed] 1891: Iranian Shia: United Kingdom: The Shah's granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain: Tobacco Protest: 1891-1950 Australian unionists and local residents Local publicans and hotels around Australia
Still others question whether cancel culture is an actual phenomenon, [10] arguing that boycotting has existed long before the origin of the term "cancel culture". [ 9 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] While the careers of some public figures have been impacted by boycotts—widely described as "cancellation"—others who complained of cancellation successfully ...
A BDS demonstration, with anti-BDS protesters nearer the camera, outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, April 2017. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a nonviolent [2] [6] Palestinian-led [7] movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel.
The meaning of the term "redskin" was addressed in two cases challenging the trademark registrations held by Pro-Football, Inc., the team's corporate entity. The challenge was based upon a provision of Federal trademark law (the Lanham Act ) which prohibited the registration of any mark that "may disparage persons, institutions, beliefs, or ...
From 17 July 1990 to 12 May 1993, a boycott supported by the NAACP and other civil rights groups urged visitors to steer clear, inflicting potentially tens of millions of dollars in lost tourism ...
Arthur Boycott (1877-1938), British pathologist and naturalist; Charles Boycott (1832–1897), a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave rise to the word boycott; Clare Boycott (born 1993), English cricketer; Sir Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), English cricketer; Rosie Boycott, Baroness Boycott (born 1951 ...