The painting, which was inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, has come to represent " the surge of energy among African Americans to organize in their struggle for full equality.

The next day, Saturday, was a disaster for England: Gooch was out in the first over of the day, and although Boycott and Brearley then attempted to dig in, they were both out before lunch.

Boycott was still anchored at the other end however, and he and Peter Willey added 50 runs before lunch.

Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by Lord Curzon to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged the Swadeshi movement and the Boycott movement.

It is probable that the ban was a result of the " Boycott Beijing 2008 " banner placed on Notepad ++' s SourceForge. net homepage to point out the human rights problem in China.

During the mid-20th century, Montgomery was a major site of events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches.

" On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Brendan Hopkins headed Independent News while Andrew Marr was appointed editor of The Independent and Rosie Boycott of The Independent on Sunday.

The next year, influenced by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the school was renamed in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr ..

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal episode in the U. S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

Parnell was portrayed by Robert Donat in the 1947 film Captain Boycott.

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 ".

Gavaskar ’ s 90 in the Third Test at Ahmedabad saw him pass Geoff Boycott ’ s Test world record of 8114 career runs, but was insufficient to prevent another defeat.

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.

His master ’ s thesis, “ The Natural History of A Social Movement: The Montgomery Improvement Association ,” was published by Carlson Publishing in David Garrow ’ s book entitled The Walking City – The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956.

This announcement came just days before a national ' week of action against workfare ', organised jointly with Boycott Workfare, was due to begin.

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus operated by Montgomery Bus Lines, a subsidiary of a National City Lines on 1 December 1955 which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Boycott was originally an Anglo Saxon settlement.

Until the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844 Boycott was part of Oxfordshire.

In 1998, it was alleged that Boycott assaulted his former girlfriend Margaret Moore ; he was given a suspended sentence and fined.

Boycott was born in the mining village of Fitzwilliam, near Wakefield and Pontefract in Yorkshire.

He was the eldest of three sons of Jane ( née Speight ) and Thomas Wilfred Boycott, a colliery worker from Shropshire.

When Boycott was eight years old, he was impaled through his chest by the handle of a mangle after falling off an iron railing near his home.

Boycott left in April 1998 to The Daily Express and Marr in May 1998, later to join the BBC as political editor.

In 1958 Boycott left school with seven O-level passes and the school's Individual Cricket Cup.

" Though Bird later left Boycott out of his choice XI, he would write: " of all the great players I have seen, if I had to pick a batsman to bat for my life, I would go for Geoffrey.

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.

Socialist Party TDs Clare Daly ( left ) and Joe Higgins ( centre ), pictured during the Boycott the Household Tax campaign in January 2012

Becoming a journalist in 1990, he rose to the position of Assistant Editor of The Observer newspaper which he joined in 2000 after having worked with Peter Hitchens and Peter Oborne as Media Editor for Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott, and the London Evening Standard under editor and mentor Max Hastings, who like him had left Oxford after two years, and other magazines.

Geoff Boycott captained Yorkshire for most of the 1970s, but success eluded the team even when Boycott left Test cricket for three years to concentrate on the county game.

Boycott left Ireland on 1 December 1880 and in 1886 he became land agent for Hugh Adair's Flixton estate in Suffolk.

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.

In response, the Arizona Republican Party handed out bumper stickers reading " Boycott Grijalva, Not Arizona.

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.

A few months later, captain David Bairstow, a long term ally of Boycott whose leadership had Boycott's support, was ruled out of the running for captaincy for the following season, which was instead given to Phil Carrick, of whom Boycott disapproved.

Against New Zealand, Boycott scored 23 and 44 not out in the first Test at Edgbaston and 76 in the second at Lord's, but missed the third Test owing to injury.

In the third Test match, having hit good partnerships in the first two, Boycott made 77 and 142 not out.

During the second match, Boycott allegedly told Basil D ' Oliveira, the latter having just announced that he had worked out the action of Australian spinner Johnny Gleeson, that he had " sorted that out a fortnight ago.

The Fifth Test was drawn, Boycott making 12 and 76 *, and in the Sixth Test he was run out for 58.

Boycott was dismissed for 99 in the first innings against the West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1973 – 74 and scored 112 in the second, followed by a career-best first-class score of 261 not out against a West Indies Board President's XI.

Boycott recalled in his autobiography that when Denness confronted him on the issue he replied " Get out of here before I do something I'll regret.

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 ).

When Boycott returned to the Test side against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977 he ran out Derek Randall in front of his home crowd before going on to make a century.

In this match, in which Ian Botham made his England debut, Boycott batted on each of the five days of the match: his first innings 107 started at the end of the first day, he batted throughout the second day and was dismissed on the third day ; he started his second innings at the end of day four and batted throughout England's successful run chase scoring 80 not out, scoring the winning runs in partnership with Randall.

Boycott took seven hours and 22 minutes to score 77 runs, and England were bowled out for 64 when chasing 137 to win.

" Botham then ran Boycott out, later claiming in his autobiography that he had done it deliberately.