Photograph
Children Hanging Effigy in South Boston Project
| Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fence, watching as two boys are pulling an effigy of an African-American man up into a dead tree. One of the boys is standing on the top of the fence helping the boy in the tree. In the background are shrubs, trees and a housing project. This image was captured during the unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing. |
| Image ID: | 139114 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1975 |
| Creator Name: | Cowan, Rachel |
| City: | Boston |
| County: | |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Collection Name: | Paul Cowan papers, 1963-1987 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M92-316 Box 1 Fldr 1 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6.625 x 9.875 inches |
| The desegregation of Boston public schools occurred between 1974 and 1988. In 1965 the Massachusetts Legislature enacted the Racial Imbalance Act which mandated the desegregation of the Public Schools. Nearly a decade passed before the Boston Public Schools were ordered to implement busing to desegregate. Widespread opposition to the plan began on the first day of school in September of 1974 with a two year period of racial protests, demonstrations, violence, walkouts and boycotts. Rabbi Rachel Cowan, a civil rights activist and freelance photographer in the 1960s & 1970s, helped found the Jewish healing movement and later ran the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for many years. She was ordained in New York in 1989. |
| Apartments |
| Housing |
| Yards |
| Students |
| Neighborhoods |
| Sidewalks |
| Fences |
| Clothing and dress |
| Trees |
| Youth |
| Civil rights |
| Race relations |
| Leaves |
| Outdoor photography |
| Children |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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