The desegregation of buses in Boston, Massachusetts, was ordered in 1965—and by 1974, protests against this reform had become a severe and widespread problem. In 1976, Stanley Forman took a photograph that summed up the entire crisis: it shows the black lawyer and civil rights activist Theodore Landsmark being attacked by a white teen named Joseph Rakes, who has armed himself with—of all things—an American flag.

1976年4月5日，马萨诸塞州。波士顿的公交车，马萨诸塞州于1965年和1974年奉命废除种族隔离，对这项改变的抗议活动已成为一个严重和普遍的问题。1976年，斯坦利福尔曼摄影留念，总结了整个危机过程：照片显示黑律师和民权活动家西奥多Landsmark被一个白衣青少年约瑟夫使用武器攻击，这些人武装自己，任何一件东西都可能成为武器，包括美国国旗。