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List of boycotts

This is a list of boycotts.

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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

Current boycotts

Consumer boycotts

  • the boycott of buying products from large companies (like Coca Cola and McDonald's)
  • the Nestle boycott
  • the boycott of French products by American consumers
  • the boycott of American products
  • Stop Esso campaign
  • Claremont Resort Boycott
  • the boycott of Israeli products by pro-Palestinian groups
  • a general boycott of buying products which contain animal products, see vegan


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

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