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The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953, by African American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who were seeking integration into the system. In the early 1950s, they made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses and were estimated to account for slightly more than 10,000 passengers based on ...
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era: 1980 Summer Olympics: United States Various nations Soviet Union: Soviet–Afghan War: 1980 Summer Olympics boycott: 1984 Summer Olympics: Warsaw Pact states (except Romania) Cuba United States: 1980 Summer Olympics boycott: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott Friendship Games: 1986 ...
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 ...
The boycott rose out of small, local organizations of consumers across the country as prices for meat rose dramatically. [4] [5] These groups were primarily female led, as women traditionally bought the groceries for their households, and these groups grew both from people that only joined together around this issue and already existing women's and community groups.
The list of stores is called the #GrabYourWallet boycott list, and includes retailers that carry both Donald and Ivanka's products, such as clothing and home furnishings.
November 15: Moratorium redux: over 500,000 march in Washington, D.C. It is the largest anti-war demonstration in American history. [536] November 20: Native American protesters begin the Occupation of Alcatraz, which continues for 19 months. [537] December: Total U.S. casualties (dead and seriously wounded) in Vietnam total some 100,000.
The Chinese Boycott of 1905 was a large-scale boycott of American goods in Qing dynasty that began on 10 May 1905. The catalyst was the Gresham-Yang Treaty of 1894, [ 1 ] which was an extension of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act .