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

In the Harlem court on March 22 (18)

Only the stories in the NYT and DN described the scene at the courtroom. Neither of those stories indicated that police had to control a crowd like that which had gathered two days earlier. However, the DM that "several hundred Colored persons" "thronged" outside the court. That story was discounted given that reporters from other publications had noted the presence of crowds earlier in the week, it is likely that they would have again on this day if they had been present.

The DM story did provide a context for the day's proceedings not made explicit by other publications, that "Magistrate Renaud began yesterday the work of cleaning his calendar of the remainder of 85 cases growing out of the Harlem riots." (similar statement in NYT)  The number of cases in the story does not fit the legal records. No newspaper story identified all those who appeared in the court. The Home News, as it did on other dates, mentioned the largest number, ten of the seventeen, and described the charges against three of those convicted, Elizabeth Tai, Arthur Davis and Herbert Hunter and reported testimony by the storeowner whose business Daughty Shavos and Clifford Mitchell had allegedly looted. Tai, Davis and Hunter's convictions were the most widely reported hearings, also mentioned in the

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