Examples of boycott in the following topics:
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- The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
- The decision to choose Parks and not Colvin as the symbol of the boycott was political.
- French to name the association to lead the boycott (they selected the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to the city, and select King (Nixon's choice) to lead the boycott.
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses.
- Describe the roles of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other protesters in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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- Merchants in the colonies, some of them also smugglers, organized economic boycotts to put pressure on their British counterparts to work for repeal of the Townshend Acts.
- Merchants in other colonial ports, including New York City and Philadelphia, eventually joined the boycott.
- The members met at Raleigh Tavern and adopted a boycott agreement known as the "Association. "
- British exports to the colonies declined by 38 percent in 1769, but there were many merchants who did not participate in the boycott.The boycott movement began to fail by 1770, and came to an end in 1771.
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- Similar boycotts extended to a variety of British goods with women opting to
purchase or make "American" goods instead.
- Even though these
"non-consumption boycotts" depended on national policy (formulated by
men), it was women who enacted them in households.
- In addition to boycotts of British goods, Patriot women participated in the "Homespun Movement."
- The Edenton Tea Party was a women-led boycott of British products.
- Because women ran the household, their purchasing power was vital; boycotts such as this supported the war effort.
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- The result of the Congress was the Continental Association, which was a system for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain.
- The Continental Association was a system created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain.
- As they had done during the 1760s (most effectively during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765), colonists turned to economic boycotts to protest what they saw as unconstitutional legislation.
- The word "boycott" had not yet been coined; colonists referred to their economic protests as, depending upon the specific activity, "non-importation", "non-exportation", or "non-consumption".
- In May 1774, the Boston Town Meeting, with Samuel Adams acting as moderator, passed a resolution that called for an economic boycott in response to the Boston Port Act, which was one of the Coercive Acts.
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- In addition to the boycotts of British textiles, the Homespun Movement served the Continental Army by producing needed clothing and blankets.
- Women used their purchasing power for additional boycotts.
- Fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina signed an agreement officially agreeing to boycott tea and other English products and sent it to British newspapers.
- Women extended similar boycotts to a variety of British goods, instead opting in favor of purchasing or making "American" goods.
- Even though these "non-consumption boycotts" depended on a national policy formulated by men, it was women who enacted them in the household spheres.
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- Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott—union members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
- The ARU declared that if switchmen were disciplined for the boycott, the entire ARU would strike in sympathy.
- The boycott was launched on June 26, 1894.
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- The Daughters of Liberty were a Colonial American group, established around 1769, consisting of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passing of the Townshend Acts.
- In 1774, the Patriot women helped influence a decision made by the Continental Congress to boycott all British goods.
- The Daughters of Liberty helped influence a decision made by the Continental Congress to boycott all British goods.
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- Along with boycotts, two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation.
- Merchants in the colonies, some of them smugglers, organized economic boycotts in order to pressure their British counterparts to work toward repealing the Townshend Acts.
- Merchants in other colonial ports eventually joined the boycott.
- The boycott movement began to fail by 1770, and came to an end in 1771.
- In 1774, the patriot women helped influence a decision made by the Continental Congress to boycott all British goods.
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- The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade, rights and grievances, and petitioning King George III for redress of those grievances.
- The delegates organized an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest against the Coercive Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774, and petitioned the King for a redress of grievances.
- The result of the Congress was the Continental Association, which was a system for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain.
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- Forms of protest or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama or the march on Washington as well as a wide range of other nonviolent activities .
- The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
- Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.