This poster for the Socialist Workers Party national campaign of 1976 is based on a photograph taken by photojournalist Stanley Forman for the Boston Herald American during the Boston busing crisis. In 1974, the Boston public schools were legally desegregated, and students began to be bused between predominantly Black and white areas of the city, leading to countless protests and riots. The photograph, titled The Soiling of Old Glory, shows the Black, Yale-educated attorney and civil rights activist Theodore (Ted) Landsmark being assaulted by Joseph Rakes, a white student, with a flagpole; in the background, Jim Kelly, a local politician who actually opposed busing, is seen helping Landsmark to his feet. The year after it appeared in this campaign poster, the image won a Pulitzer Prize for Spot Photography.