Professor Voices » Ted Landsmark http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices Opinions and views by Boston University experts Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Thomas Whalen on site of Bill Russell statue http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/07/26/bill-russell-statue/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/07/26/bill-russell-statue/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:44:24 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=2299 In response to a recent column in The Boston Herald, Thomas Whalen, associate professor of social science at Boston University and author of Dynasty’s End: Bill Russell and the 1968 – 69 World Champion Boston Celtics (Northeastern University Press), discusses why he believes a statue of Celtics legend and civil rights activist, Bill Russell, should be erected near the site where Ted Landsmark was attacked by a man using an American flagpole during an anti-busing demonstration in Boston in 1976.

The attack resulted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Herald photograph now known as “The Soiling of Old Glory.”

 

Whalen can be reached at 978-888-3131 or tjw64@comcast.net.

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