The Story Of The Famous Photo ‘The Soiling Of Old Glory’ And Boston’s Civil Rights Struggle Over Busing
All That's Interesting | 06.02.2026 09:00
On a spring day in 1976, photographer Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American headed to Boston’s City Hall Plaza to cover an anti-busing demonstration. The protests against busing, which was meant to help desegregate the city’s public schools, had been going on for years. But this protest would result in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, a disturbing image of a white student attacking a Black man with an American flag: “The Soiling of Old Glory.”
