PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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to make a point
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to bring attention
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to hurt a business financially
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to bring others to action
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Detailed explanation-1: -The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is a boycott? Quite simply, a boycott is an effort to convince a large number of consumers not to do business with a particular person or business. Occasionally, a boycott of a country may occur, when another country refuses to engage in trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -It all comes down to what companies consider to be important. “Boycotts generate typically negative publicity, brands want to avoid it, and as a result they may reach out to organizers of the boycott to discuss what they should be doing, ” University of Maryland marketing professor Amna Kirmani tells Refinery29.
Detailed explanation-4: -: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a store, business, or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions see also primary boycott, secondary boycott.
Detailed explanation-5: -Through strikes, embargos, and boycotts, workers can bring a nation’s industries to a halt, thus causing an internal crisis to the state machinery. The methods of economic noncooperation increase in effectiveness with a nation’s increased reliance on a capitalist form of economy.