Boston; April 5; 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing; newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston; made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer Prize. Acclaimed historian Louis P. Masur has done extensive research; including personal interviews with those involved; to reveal the unknown story of what really happened that day and afterward. This evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image to trace the lives of the men who intersected at that moment; to examine the power of photography and the meaning of the flag; and to reveal how a single picture helped change race relations in Boston and America. The Soiling of Old Glory; like the photograph itself; offers a dramatic window onto the turbulence of the 1970s and race relations in America.
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