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The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice
Brogan, Jan
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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: New EnglandTrue Crime
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ISBN10: 1625346093
ISBN13: 9781625346094
Publisher: Bright Leaf
Published: Sep 24 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Agatha Awards
ISBN13: 9781625346094
Publisher: Bright Leaf
Published: Sep 24 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Agatha Awards
Shortlisted for the 2021 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty 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 a court system that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based purely on their racial or 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.
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