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Black-owned business signs (6)
The sign on the Williams's drug store used the same phrase, "Colored Store" with the additional phrase "Nix Jack," repeating the combination twice on its side windows. The Cozy Shoppe customized the phrase to fit its name, rendering it as "Colored Shoppe."
Signs provided material evidence that attacks on businesses during the disorder were targeted at white-owned businesses rather than being indiscriminate. [described, photographed and filmed for newsreels - NB who does not mention signs - some Black newspapers as well as white]. Some stories cast Black-owned stores being spared damage as relying on signs - others as being helped by signs. NB significance of additional signs going up the morning after, as became aware of details of disorder?
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- [Photograph] "Grim Work!" New York Daily News, March 20, 1935
- "Machine Guns Set Up in New York Streets. False Rumor Causes Death of One, Wounding of 50, and Looting of 300 Stores," Afro-American, March 23, 1935, 1.
- "Tropas Para Harlem Pedidas Ayer; Centenares de Policias Patrullaban Anoche Ei Barrio," La Prensa, March 21, 1935, 1.