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After word of this incident reached the black community, 50 African-American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to demand a more humane bus transportation system.
According to captain, Close, at Lord's after Yorkshire had slowly reached 22 / 1, he Close promoted himself to number three in the batting order so that he could urge Boycott into action.
Though both Brearley and Boycott reached half-centuries, the hosts were dismissed by Joel Garner's five-wicket haul, falling to 194 all out, and the West Indies secured the title.

Boycott and from
The six tracks were: " Chaos ", " Poetic Terrorism ", and " Amour Fou " ( all from " Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism "), " Immediatism ", and " The Tong " ( both from the book Immediatism ), and " Boycott Cop Culture " ( from " Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy ").
In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen.
He was the eldest of three sons of Jane ( née Speight ) and Thomas Wilfred Boycott, a colliery worker from Shropshire.
In one match, Boycott faced a delivery from Foord which he dispatched to the boundary for four.
When Brian Close took over from Vic Wilson as captain of Yorkshire in 1963 he persuaded the committee to keep Boycott on, and was rewarded when, on 2 June 1963, Boycott scored 145 against Lancashire.
Boycott captained Yorkshire for eight seasons from 1971 to 1978, having been appointed following the sacking of Brian Close in 1970.
Despite well publicised conflict between the two players, Boycott recorded in 1987 that he regretted Close's removal from the club, and wrote him a letter in admiration for his contributions to Yorkshire.
Yorkshire's scorer Ted Lester commented later that Boycott " never got the support he deserved from the committee.
Boycott, in response, attacked the Yorkshire club and its decision in an appearance on the BBC's flagship chatshow Parkinson on 7 October, prompting both strong criticism from the club and strong public support for his own position.
This generated much protest from Boycott supporters, who rallied, calling for his reinstatement at a meeting on 9 October in Ossett, Yorkshire.
Of the replacement members, 17 were from the Members 84 Group, and Boycott himself was elected, leaving him with both a position on the team and on the Yorkshire Club committee.
In particular, Boycott's place on both the team and the committee led to feelings of distrust from both – though Boycott denies this – which led to the loss of support from long-term ally Sid Fielden.
John Arlott wrote in 1979 that " any expectation of an English win, except in freak bowling conditions, is based on a major innings from Boycott.
Boycott was omitted from the first Test, but shared a partnership of 115 with Tom Graveney.
Boycott initially refused to leave the ground in disbelief, and eventually walked off to jeering from the crowd.
Boycott has responded to these accusations by pointing out that Lillee had been out of cricket for 21 months suffering from a serious back complaint and that Thomson had not played in Tests for 23 months prior to the 1974 – 5 Ashes series, since an unsuccessful debut Test against Pakistan ( Thomson's match figures were 0 – 110 ).
Boycott suffered a scratch on his cornea and missed the last two days of the final match, and by the start of the 1978 season, Brearley had taken the captaincy back from Boycott.
Reaching the final after a close victory against New Zealand in which Boycott scored only two, he hit 57 from 105 balls as England chased Viv Richards 138 not out-inspired 286 to win, falling 92 runs short at 194 all out.
Marxism 2013 will include a return of Pilger, along with other speakers such as Billy X Jennings of the Black Panther Party, activist and blogger Antony Loewenstein, activist and author Jeff Sparrow, Australian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference co-organiser Kim Bullimore, representatives from the Nava Sama Samaja Party from Sri Lanka, Partido ng Manggagawa from the Philippines, and activists from Mindanao, Indonesia, and Pakistan among others.

Boycott and bowling
In 1970 – 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 – 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.
Willis took one wicket for 20 runs from his 11 overs, surpassed by Boycott – who would be an unlikely bowling hero during the tournament – who took 2 / 15.
Lawson first came to notice in international cricket by bowling a series of bouncers during a brief spell against Geoff Boycott in a tour match between NSW and England in the 1978 – 79 season.

Boycott and Greg
The seasoned pros of England in Boycott, Edrich, D ' Oliveira, Illingworth himself, Underwood and Snow faced the upcoming young Australians ( Ian and Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, Doug Walters ) who would dominate for the middle part of the decade.

Boycott and Chappell
He also fell out publicly with other players, including fellow England opener Geoff Boycott, Somerset captain Peter Roebuck, and Australian batsman Ian Chappell, with whom he had an altercation in an Adelaide Oval car park during the 2010 – 11 Ashes series.
Since 1995, he has been presenting live cricket from all around the world for ESPN STAR Sports and was part of the ' Few Good Men ' commentary team that included Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, and Alan Wilkins along with Geoff Boycott and Navjot Singh Sidhu, for few seasons, and later, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar.

Boycott and with
In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.
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His 22 Test centuries is an England record shared with Wally Hammond and Geoff Boycott and he toured Australia a record six times between 1954-55 and 1974-75.
Referring to the Association's involvement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and its role in funding and providing legal assistance to black students ' seeking admission to the state university, the suit charged that the Association was ".
In the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Abernathy was the young pastor of the largest black church First Baptist Church and a college professor, who, along with fellow English professor Jo Ann Robinson, called for and distributed flyers asking the Negro citizens of Montgomery to stay off of the buses for what would become the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Along with Ray Illingworth, Geoff Boycott and John Edrich John Snow declined to tour India in 1972-73, wanted to rest his back for the summer and concerned about the dysentery he had caught in Pakistan in 1968-69.
This announcement came just days before a national ' week of action against workfare ', organised jointly with Boycott Workfare, was due to begin.
After 108 Test match appearances for England, Boycott ended his international career in 1982 as the leading Test run scorer with over 8, 000 Test match runs, earning an OBE for services to cricket.
In 1958 Boycott left school with seven O-level passes and the school's Individual Cricket Cup.
During his career Boycott frequently clashed with other strong personalities at the club, including Fred Trueman, Brian Close and Ray Illingworth, but remained popular with the Yorkshire crowds.
Boycott cemented his place in the Yorkshire XI in the 1963 season with successive scores of 76, 53, 49 not out and 50, and on 29 August made a century partnership in both innings of a match against Leicestershire with Ken Taylor.
Boycott went on to hit his highest score thus far, 165 not out, against Leicestershire, and ended his first full season with 1, 446 runs at an average of 46. 64, placing him second in the 1963 national batting averages.
By the end of the 1964 season, Boycott had topped the country's domestic averages with 59. 45.
He also caused strife between his fellow players, including a reciprocated dislike for Richard Hutton, with many players leaving the club citing personal differences with Boycott as the reason for their departure.
Boycott headed the national batting averages in 1972 with 72. 35, and was second in 1973 with 63. 62.
In 1973, however, Yorkshire failed to win any of the 8 championship games with Boycott in charge, and Wisden called the season " disturbingly unsuccessful ".
On 29 September, the Yorkshire club committee met with Boycott to discuss terminating his captaincy.
Bill Athey left the club at this time, and while Boycott in his biography maintained that he had no reason to believe that his actions had caused Athey's departure, Athey later stated to biographer Leo McKinstry that " Boycott's attitude and the atmosphere he created had everything to do with my decision to leave Yorkshire.

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