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Step-by-step explanation:
"Members of the Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans believed that large companies such as the Ford Motor Company supported efforts to bring about integration in the United States. To influence the policies of such businesses, the Citizens' Council organized boycotts of the companies' products." Based on the evidence in this text, what did the Citizens' Council hope to accomplish by organizing a boycott against Ford?
Citizen Council was an association of white supremacist, extreme right-wing individual that was founded after the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and organized for upholding supremacy,segregationists activities against the minority in the United State. In 1960's, the chapter of the Citizens' Councils of America in Greater New Orleans organized a boycott against Ford Motor Company, this boycott was advertise using poster( you will find the image of the poster as an attachment) New Orleans at that time was sharply divided over the practice of segregation in which schools were ordered to desegregate,this angered many white individual who felt threatening. So, they organized a protest against Ford because support of the Civil Rights movement using a poster.
This poster says "For years and years a considerable portion of the profits from the sale of Ford cars, trucks, and other Ford products have been funneled into tax free foundations. MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars of Ford profits have been distributed to integration and civil rights organizations to fight the white people of the SOUTH, by forcing them to associate with Negroes,It is time to dry up at least one source of the money that is being used to destroy our Southern way of life.
The boycott was that all white citizens should to stop buying Ford cars and trucks in order to dry up at least one source of the money that is being used to destroy our Southern way of life.
The Citizens' Council hope to accomplish a financial meltdown against the company by organizing a boycott against Ford in order to discourage any support for the Civil Rights movement