List of boycotts
Time frame Participants Target Cause Main article
March 1769 Philadelphia merchants First Continental Congress Kingdom of Great Britain Opposition to colonial taxation without representation Continental Association
1848 Milan Austrian Empire Austrian state monopolies Five Days of Milan
1880 Irish Land League Charles Boycott Desired land reform in Ireland
1891 Iranian Shia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Shah 's granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain Tobacco Protest
1904-1906 China United States The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1902 , an extension of the original Act of 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
1912 Tunisia Compagnie des tramways de Tunis , all Italian businesses in Tunis Young Tunisians Tunis Tram Boycott
1919 Republic of China Empire of Japan May Fourth Movement Chinese boycotts of Japanese products
March 1933 American Jewish Congress International critics of Nazism Nazi Germany Antisemitism in Nazi Germany Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933
April 1933 Nazi Germany German Jews Anti-Nazi boycotts Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
1941-1951 Kingdom of Iraq Iraqi Jews Farhud
Mohandas Gandhi Indian independence movement British Raj Desired economic independence for India Swadeshi movement
1955-1968 African Americans Various Racial segregation in the United States Civil Rights Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott
1961-1983 West Berlin Berlin S-Bahn East German operation of the S-Bahn Berlin S-Bahn # Cold War
United Farm Workers Grapes and lettuce in retail grocery stores Labor disputes Delano grape strike
1960s-1990 Various academics South Africa universities Apartheid Academic boycott of South Africa
Various South African produce Apartheid
1973-1995 LGBT groups Coors Brewing Company Anti-gay hiring practices
1984-1993 INFACT General Electric Production and promotion of nuclear weapons Corporate Accountability International
1989-1998 Rainforest Action Network Mitsubishi Rainforest destruction through its forestry activities Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign
1991-1998 Friends of the Lubicon Daishowa Proposed logging of Lubicon Cree territory
Past
This is a list of boycotts.