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Arab League boycott of Israel: 1977: Various: Nestlé: Nestlé's promotion of infant formula over breast milk in developing countries: Nestlé boycott [19] 1989: Liverpudlians: The Sun: The Sun's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster: Coverage of the Hillsborough disaster by The Sun § Merseyside boycott [20] [21] [failed verification] [22 ...
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.
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.
Montgomery bus boycott activist Harry Hay: 1912 2002 United States: early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society: Rosa Parks: 1913 2005 United States: NAACP official, activist, Montgomery bus boycott inspiration Daisy Bates: 1914 1999 United States: organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events Viola ...
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.
June 30 – In NAACP v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the NAACP was not required to release membership lists to continue operating in the state. July – NAACP Youth Council sponsored sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Dockum Drug Store in downtown Wichita, Kansas. After three weeks, the movement successfully gets the store to ...
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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. After the circuit court issued a restraining order, the state issued a subpoena for various records, including the NAACP's ...