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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Ackermann was mayor in 1972, a 16-year-old high-school dropout named Larry Largey was found dead in a police cell. A police autopsy claimed he died of a drug overdose. City activists claimed he was beaten to death by the police...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Learning a City From the Top Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Learning a City From the Top Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Learning a City From the Top Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Learning a City From the Top Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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