Boycotts

Boycotts change companies.

Boycotts can be very effective in changing a company's policy.

Do you think those boycotts will amount to anything?

Boycotts are a form of free speech.

Boycotts are a form of free expression.

As president of the National Association of Colored Women, Terrell supported the women’s suffrage movement, even picketing at the White House to demand equal treatment. After anti-discrimination laws were overturned in Washington in the 1890s, Terrell led a campaign to reinstate laws protecting African Americans. She continued to fight against segregation through boycotts and sit-ins. In 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated eating places in Washington were unconstitutional.