Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935Main MenuREAD ME: Help Navigating This BookIntroductionOn the StreetsIn the CourtsUnder InvestigationThe Mayor's Commission on Conditions in HarlemOver TimeEventsSourcesStephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfStanford University Press
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12020-02-26T20:11:54+00:00Anonymous113plain952023-07-12T15:56:43+00:00AnonymousMeanwhile, the group that La Guardia had appointed moved ahead with its work. Investigating the events of March 19 was one of the first tasks on which they embarked. Over the next two and a half months, a subcommittee would send staff drawn from city government agencies to find eyewitnesses to the events in and around the Kress store and to conduct investigations into the deaths that occurred during the disorder and cases of police brutality. Those investigators gathered pages of official records and undertook nearly one hundred interviews in the commission’s offices and in homes and another fifteen interviews with police and hospital staff. The commission members themselves would hold five public hearings at which fifty-seven witnesses would testify in front of audiences of 300 to 400 people. At the end of May, the subcommittee chair Arthur Garfield Hays would use the results of those investigations to draft a preliminary report on the "Events of March 19" for submission to the mayor.
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