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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), [1] was a landmark decision [2] of the United States Supreme Court ruling 8–0 (Marshall did not participate in the decision) that although states have broad power to regulate economic activities, they cannot prohibit peaceful advocacy of a politically motivated boycott.
Lonnie Randolph Jr. (June 3, 1950 – October 19, 2024) was an American physician and civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in South Carolina, known as the South Carolina Conference of NAACP, for fourteen years.
Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933: April 1933: Nazi Germany: German Jews: Anti-Nazi boycotts: Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses: 1941–1951: Iraq: Iraqi Jews: Farhud [4] Mohandas Gandhi Indian independence movement: British Raj: Desired economic independence for India: Swadeshi movement: 1955–1968: African Americans: Various: Racial segregation in ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
In some cities, the Councils published lists of names of NAACP supporters and signers of anti-segregation petitions in local newspapers in order to encourage economic retaliation. [30] For instance, in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1955, the Citizens' Council published in the local paper the names of 53 signers of a petition for school integration.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449 (1958), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. Alabama sought to prevent the NAACP from conducting further business in the state.
The 2020 Facebook ad boycotts were a group of boycotts that took place during the month of July 2020. Much of the boycotts were organized under the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, launched by the advocacy groups the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Color of Change, Common Sense Media, Free Press and Sleeping Giants.