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The Soiling of Old Glory

The photograph that captured Boston's busing crisis: How it was taken, and why it still matters.

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Louis P. Masur, a Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, is the author of Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union, and is guest curator of “Promise of Freedom” at the Fairfield Museum and History Center.