Ted Landsmark
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Boston Architectural College
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and was previously the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art. He also served as the Director of Boston's Office of Community Partnerships.
Landsmark has received fellowships from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
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, and he serves on the editorial board for Architecture Boston. Landsmark also serves as a trustee to numerous arts-related foundations including Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is widely recognized as an important advocate of diversity and of the African American cause in schools of architecture. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council
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, and also serves on the organization's Executive Board. Landsmark earned a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. In 2006 he received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award from the American Institute of Architects
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in recognition for his efforts as a social activist.
Ted Landsmark was the subject of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
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for an image entitled The Soiling of Old Glory
The Soiling of Old Glory
The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976 by Stanley Forman.The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a flagpole bearing the American flag...
, taken by Stanley Forman
Stanley Forman
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. He was walking in the plaza to get to Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall
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when anti-busing protesters attacked him. In that photograph, anti-busing organizer Jim Kelly pushes Landsmark away while teen Joseph Rakes appears to be about to strike Landsmark with an American flag. Video footage of the event shows that Rakes missed hitting Landsmark with the flag. The entire incident only lasted 15-20 seconds and when the police broke up the assault, Landsmark was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for injuries, including a broken nose and bruising over much of his body.