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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 United States: Civil Rights Movement Montgomery bus boycott ...
The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. South Africa were not invited to the 1964 Games, while its invitation to the 1968 Games was withdrawn after several other African countries threatened to boycott the Games due to apartheid. South Africa would not be permitted to return to the Olympics until 1992.
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 ...
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An election boycott is the boycotting of an election by a group of voters, each of whom abstains from voting. Boycotting may be used as a form of political protest where voters feel that electoral fraud is likely, or that the electoral system is biased against its candidates, that the polity organizing the election lacks legitimacy, or that the candidates running are very unpopular.
1980 Summer Olympics boycott; 1984 Summer Olympics boycott; 1986 Asian Games; 1986 Commonwealth Games; 1988 Summer Olympics; 1995 South Pacific Games; 2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships; 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 9; 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships; 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships
The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the United States Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, [42] soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees. With mail service virtually paralyzed in New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia, President Nixon declared a state ...
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