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
Emma Brockson assaulted
12020-04-09T18:53:50+00:00Anonymous16plain2020-09-25T18:57:33+00:003/20/1935 00:35AnonymousEmma Brockson, a twenty-six-year-old woman of unknown race, was allegedly assaulted around midnight. She was treated at Knickerbocker Hospital at 12.35am for injuries to her left hand "received when assaulted by some unknown person or persons." The assault occurred at 7th Avenue and 125th St, the location of at least five other assaults and the fatal shooting of Andrew Lyons during the course of the disorder. Brockson lived only two blocks to the West, on 126th Street.
The hospital record is the only evidence of the assault.