List of boycotts
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This is a list of boycotts.

Historical milestones

• the boycott of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League, 1880
• by African Americans during the US civil rights movement, 1960s
• the United Farm Workers union grape and lettuce boycotts
• the American boycott of British goods at the time of the American Revolution
• the Indian boycott of British goods organized by Mohandas Gandhi
• the Arab League boycott of Israel and companies trading with Israel
• the boycott of South Africa by a large part of the world's countries during its apartheid period

Sporting boycotts

• by US competitors of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
• by Soviet competitors of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

Current boycotts

Consumer boycotts

• the boycott of buying products from large companies (like Coca Cola and McDonalds)
• the boycott of French products by American consumers
• Stop Esso campaign
• Claremont Resort Boycott

See also: moral purchasing, non-violent resistance, election boycott

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