This picture is described on page 118, "He was aiming the pointed staff of an American flag and charging at a black lawyer in a suit." I first saw it in a 7th grade history class.
What's horrific about this picture is not only that the man would use a flag pole, flag still attached, as a weapon, but that racial violence could still exist so far north in a "liberal" state, when we often prefer to think that racial violence remains in the south far away from us.
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