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The Family Red Apple boycott, also known as the "Red Apple boycott", "Church Avenue boycott" or "Flatbush boycott",〔(Kim, Claire Jean. ""No Justice, No Peace!": The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict". ''Trotter Review''. (1993): pp. 12-13. )〕 was an eight-month-long boycott against a Korean-American-owned shop, Family Red Apple, on Church Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn in 1990-1991. __NOTOC__ ==Events== The boycott was sparked by an alleged assault of a Haitian woman by a Korean-American shopkeeper. The woman alleged that she had been struck by three of the shop's employees. The shopkeeper said that the woman had refused to pay for store items and that she had not been attacked. The boycott was led by Robert (Sonny) Carson, a local activist and black nationalist. The incident led to public criticism of New York City's Mayor David Dinkins for failing to end the protest.〔 (Goodman, Walter. "Review/Television; The Boycotting of a Korean Grocery in Brooklyn". ''The New York Times''. July 12, 1990. )〕 Carson threatened the storeowners that the boycott would escalate, stating "in the future, there will be funerals not boycotts".〔(Black Korean Who Pushed Whom Festers. ''The New York Times''. May 7, 1990. Accessed February 21, 2014. )〕 Police discovered 18 Molotov cocktails on nearby rooftops.〔(Maykuth, Andrew. New York Boycott Settles In For The Long Haul. ''The Inquirer''. Philly.com. September 30, 1990 Accessed February 21, 2014. )〕 In one instance the boycott turned violent, when a black protester attacked a Vietnamese man with a claw hammer while other blacks shouted "Koreans go home". Race relations were less dire than people feared, but at the time the prospect of racial unraveling seemed real.〔(Reider, Jonathan. Trouble in Store. ''New Republic''. July 2, 1990. Accessed February 21, 2014. )〕 A New York City judge, Gerald S. Held, issued an order barring the demonstrators from picketing within 50 feet of the Korean stores. However, the NYPD refrained from enforcing the order, saying it involved a civil dispute.〔Lubasch, Arnold H. "Woman Sues Boycotted Grocery in Flatbush". ''The New York Times''. May 19, 1990. (Archived article. )〕 The mayor's office attempted to mediate between the two sides. Eight months into the boycott, with the picketers continuing to refuse to cooperate, Dinkins made a personal effort at reconciliation by shopping at the grocery shop.〔 Dinkins's effort was received well by the Korean storeowner but was met with curses from the black picketers. Dinkins's symbolic gesture did not end the boycott.〔(JOHN J. GOLDMAN and KAREN TUMULTY. Dinkins Tries to Break Black Boycott of Korean Stores. ''The LA Times''. September 22, 1990. Accessed February 21, 2014. )〕 A second boycott occurred later that year, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, this time eliciting a stronger response by the Dinkins administration.〔Terry, Don. "Dinkins Responds to 2d Boycott of a Korean Store". ''The New York Times''. August 28, 1990. (Archived article. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Family Red Apple boycott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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