"The Soiling of Old Glory"

My parents were in town this weekend. We had a lovely time walking around the city, eating and seeing the sights. Mom and Dad lived here for a long time before they had us kiddies, and they like to show us places they used to go back then. Mom asked me if I'd ever seen the following picture:

The name of this image is The Soiling of Old Glory, taken by Stanley Forman in 1976 during a series of protests against court-ordered desegrated busing and the winner of 1977 Pulitzer Prize. The man under attack in the image is Ted C. Landsmark, a remarkable Boston figure who is a lawyer, a civil rights activist, and the president of the Boston Architectural College. Back in 1976, he was also the properietor of a small, non-profit Boston art gallery who sent all monetary benefits to the artists that displayed in it. This art gallery had only one employee-- my mother, then only twenty-four years old, getting her masters in fine art downtown. She says he was a very cool man. And I think it's cool that she knew him.