TY  - GEN
T1  - The Combat Zone : murder, race, and Boston's struggle for justice
A1  - Brogan, Jan
LA  - English
PP  - Amherst
PB  - Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1256593583
AB  - "At the end of the 1976 football season, more than thirty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district. Starting with this brutal murder, The Combat Zone tells the story of the Puopolo family's struggle with both a devastating loss and a criminal justice system that produced two trials with opposing verdicts, all within the context of a racially divided Boston. Brogan traces the contentious relationship between Boston's segregated neighborhoods during the busing crisis; shines a light on the overtly racist court system that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based on their ethnic identity; and lays bare the deep-seated corruption within the police department and throughout the Combat Zone. What emerges is a fascinating snapshot of the city at a transitional moment in its recent past"--
CN  - HV6534.B6
SN  - 9781613768853
SN  - 1613768850
SN  - 1613768842
SN  - 9781613768846
SN  - 9781625346087
SN  - 9781625346094
KW  - Puopolo, Andy : (Andrew P.), : 1956-1976 : Death and burial.
KW  - Harvard University : Students : Crimes against.
KW  - Harvard University
KW  - Murder : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Murder victims : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Trials (Murder) : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Red-light districts : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Boston (Mass.) : Race relations : History : 20th century.
KW  - Meurtre : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Victimes d'homicide : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Procès (Meurtre) : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - Quartiers réservés à la prostitution : Massachusetts : Boston.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Death and burial of a person
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Murder
KW  - Murder victims
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Red-light districts
KW  - Students : Crimes against
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - Massachusetts : Boston
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -