Volume 11 , Issue 39

1880 - Human Rights & Social Justice

Tennessee's 1875 "Jim Crow" law was called unconstitutional by a Federal Circuit Court.

The word "Boycott" was introduced to the English language by an incident in Ireland's County Mayo. Tenant farmers organized by the Irish Land League refused to harvest crops on estates managed by Charles Cunningham Boycott, 48, a retired British Army captain.

The Land League waged a campaign of economic and social ostracism against absentee landlords and their agents, but the word "boycott" would take on a wider meaning as a weapon in economic warfare.

Britain's first employers' Liability Act is passed by Parliament September 13, 1880 and granted compensations to workers for injuries.
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