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October 27, 1972: Riots erupt in an East Cambridge housing development to protest the death of 17-year-old Lawrence P. Largey who died while in policy custody a few hours after being arrested...
...News of Largey's death touched off a wave of riots in Roosevelt Towers, the East Cambridge housing project where he lived, as angry youths protested what they believed to be a murder of one of their...
...book's most moving scenes, Ackermann enters the Towers and confronts Largey's 16-year old peers, sharing their anger and desperation. "Other children were weeping," she says of the moment. "This was Larry's wake we were at. I wept...
Ackermann writes beautifully. "You the Mayor?" reads more like a novel than a political memoir. But the book begins to fall apart after the discussion of Largey's death...
...climax of "Who the Mayor?" is the series of protests that grew up in response to the 1972 death of 16-year-old Larry Largey, who activists claimed was beaten to death by police...