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“Civil Unrest Upsets Boston” (April 26, 1976) By Eddie Germano

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Title:	“Civil Unrest Upsets Boston” (April 26, 1976) By Eddie Germano
Artist:	Eddie Germano (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	396
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Added to Site:	9/8/2019
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“Civil Unrest Upsets Boston” (April 26, 1976)
By Eddie Germano (1924 - )
12.5 x 17.5 in., ink and wash on board

A native Bostonian, Germano became a full-time cartoonist in 1948, at age 24, after serving in WWII. Among other positions, he worked as the editorial and sports cartoonist for the Brockton Enterprise from 1963-1990.

The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a series of racial protests and riots that brought national attention, particularly from 1974 to 1976.

There were a number of protest incidents that turned severely violent, even resulting in deaths.

On April 5, 1976, attorney Theodore Landsmark was attacked and bloodied by a group of white teenagers as he exited Boston City Hall. One of the youths attacked Landsmark with an American flag. A photograph of the attack on Landsmark, “The Soiling of Old Glory” taken by Stanley Forman for the Boston Herald American, won the Pulitzer Prize.

In a retaliatory incident about two weeks later, teenagers in Roxbury threw rocks at auto mechanic Richard Poleet's car and caused him to crash. The youths dragged him out and crushed his skull with nearby paving stones. When police arrived, the man was surrounded by a crowd of 100, chanting "Let him die" while lying in a coma from which he never recovered.

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