South African exiles and supporters gathered at Holborn Hall to call for a boycott of South African goods. The Committee of African Organisations organized the meeting. By asking consumers abroad to withdraw purchases, campaigners targeted the economic connections sustaining apartheid and built the movement later known as the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
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What was the principal tactic promoted by the London Boycott Movement meeting?
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The boycott sought to use overseas consumer pressure against the economy sustaining apartheid.
The London Boycott Movement encouraged consumers to increase purchases of South African goods.
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It urged refusal of purchases to exert economic pressure.