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

E. Franklin Frazier Papers

Included among the records relating to research projects in the E. Franklin Frazier Papers are a variety of documents related to the study that Frazier directed for the Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem (MCCH) and the report he wrote of those investigations. Most of that material duplicates the records of the MCCH in the Records of Mayor La Guardia, including a complete copy of the transcript of the public hearings, but there is some material Frazier evidently retained from the survey of conditions in Harlem. Those documents include the transcript of a brief interview with Louis Eisenberg, the owner of the business Lloyd Hobbs allegedly looted; James Tartar's summary of his investigation of the killing of Hobbs; an interview with Channing Tobias; Carlton Moss' narrative of his experiences during the disorder; extensive sets of interviews that MCCH investigators conducted with white business owners and store managers, and Black and white religious leaders in Harlem; and surveys completed by unions.

Thank you to Lela Sewell-Williams and the staff of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University for reopening this resource for non-Howard researchers and for their help navigating the university's COVID-19 restrictions in March 2022.
 

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