The Nation - News from Jan. 16, 1986
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference ended a 16-week boycott of Winn-Dixie grocery stores after the chain announced it would no longer buy products from South Africa. The boycott of the Florida-based company in Georgia and seven other states in the South was “a victory of justice over injustice,” SCLC President Joseph Lowery said.
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