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1977 Spot News: The Soiling of Old Glory:
April 6, 1976: At Boston's City Hall, 200 white students demonstrated against plans to bus children to integrate the city's schools. "Everything appeared to be over," said Boston Herald American photographer Stanley Forman. Then Theodore Landsmark, executive director of the Contractors Association of Boston, headed toward City Hall. Landsmark was black. The students were white.
"Everything started to happen," Forman said. A student ran up with a flagpole. Others held Landsmark. The student struck him repeatedly. "I was making pictures... I saw him going down and rolling over. He was being hit with the flagpole. I switched lenses."
Forman recorded the day an American flag, a symbol of liberty, was used as a weapon of racial hatred. |