The Combat Zone : murder, race, and Boston's struggle for justice /
"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 t...
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Main Author: | Brogan, Jan (Author) |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press,
[2021]
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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