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One leader rescinds call for boycott of Giants, another leader does not

One of the Bay Area civil-rights leaders who on Monday called for a boycott of the Giants reversed course Tuesday after Charles B. Johnson, the team’s largest shareholder, said he was asking for an oft-criticized political donation to be returned.

Another leader who called for a boycott until Johnson has divested from the Giants said he was less moved by the owner’s actions Tuesday.

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The Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP chapter, rescinded his call for a boycott, which a day earlier he said he would do if Johnson sought his donation back from U.