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The Soiling of Old Glory
Since 1976
The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman during the Boston desegregation busing crisis in 1976. It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark—with a flagpole bearing the American flag (also known as Old Glory) near Boston City Hall.
The image was taken for the Boston Herald American in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1976, during one in a series of protests against court-ordered desegregation busing.
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