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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Alice Mitchell injured

Alice Mitchell was at the intersection of Lenox Avenue and West 129th Street when she was “cut by falling glass,” according to a hospital admission record. The twenty-one-year-old woman of unknown race lived only a few buildings west on 129th Street, an area of Black residents, so may have been a bystander drawn by the noise on Lenox Avenue at this time. Dr. Payne attended Mitchell at Harlem Hospital, half a dozen blocks north on Lenox Avenue, at 1:30 AM according to a hospital record, so she was likely injured sometime around 1:00 AM. Another person, Hugh Young, was also injured by flying glass at the same place, and attended by Payne at the same time. They may have been transported in the same ambulance.



The hospital record described Mitchell's injury as a "laceration of wrist." Mitchell appeared in only two lists of the injured, those published by the Daily News and New York Evening Journal. Both reported different injuries, lacerations to the face and neck in the Daily News, and to the head in the New York Evening Journal. Others injured by flying glass suffered wounds to their legs (2), hands (1), and in the case of Hugh Young, to the head. After being seen by the physician, Mitchell went home, her injury evidently not serious enough for her to be sent to the hospital. None of the sources recorded Mitchell's race. Her residence in an area almost entirely populated by Black New Yorkers was strong evidence that she was a Black woman.
 

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