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James "Whitey" Bulger

A Mural "Welcoming" visitors to South Boston

The mural shows the coats of the provinces of Ireland and the words (in Gaelic) Irish Republican Army, Sinn Fein, an Noraid (the Irish Northern Aid Committee.

Another Mural, this one on the side of Al's Liquors, states "Ireland Unfree Will Never be at Peace"

The Soiling of Old Glory

The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph. It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-right activist Ted Landsmark. The photograph was taken April 5, 1976 during a protest of desegregation busing in boston.

Luise Day Hicks Leads Anti-Busing Demonstration through South Boston

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All Souls Resources

Title	Description
Readers' Guide from Random House (Viewed: 932 times)
Reading Guide from Beacon Press (Viewed: 792 times)
The U.S. News and World Report article referenced in Chapter One (Viewed: 889 times)
Chapter by Chapter Teachers' Guide from Beacon Press (Viewed: 1275 times)

Michael Patrick MacDonald Resources

Title	Description
Boston Phoenix interviews Michael Patrick MacDonald (Viewed: 710 times)
Michael Patrick MacDonald Interviewed by Charlie Rose (Viewed: 663 times)

Southie Resources

Title	Description
Boston Globe article on changes in Southie (Viewed: 789 times)
Google Street view of 8 Patterson Way in Old Colony (Viewed: 920 times)
Google Maps Street View of Old Colony Housing Projects (Viewed: 849 times)

Busing in Boston Resources

Title	Description
A Hoover Institution Policy Paper Arguing That Busing "unraveled neighborhoods" and "frustrated black achievement." (Viewed: 732 times)
Busings Turbulent Legacy in Boston. From NPR (Viewed: 1021 times)
1974 Evening News report about rights at South Boston High School (Viewed: 648 times)
Mayor Kevin White Speaks on Busing (Ten O'Clock News 1974) (Viewed: 633 times)
News Report on Lansdmark incident (Viewed: 634 times)
Theodore Landsmark Press Conference (Viewed: 632 times)
South Boston High School Students interviewed on WGBH (Viewed: 638 times)
Busing in Boston: Looking Back at the History and Legacy (Viewed: 741 times)
The Joe Moakley Oral History Project: Topic Busing (Viewed: 622 times)
The Road to Perdition: Thirty years after it all started Boston is more segregated than ever (Viewed: 675 times)

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