Both Uses
boycott
in
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
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- Sit-ins and boycotts of stores and public transportation applied economic pressure.
p. 208.5 *boycotts = refusals to participate with (as an expression of protest)
- It was a people's movement, inspired by the courageous acts of ordinary citizens like Rosa Parks, the seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who began the first great effort of the movement—the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56—when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.†
p. 210.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(boycott) to refuse to buy things (from someone); or to refuse to participate in an activity (with someone) in order to express disapproval
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)