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

Frank Hall arrested

Frank Hall, a forty-six-year-old Black man, was recorded in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book as charged with disorderly conduct on March 20. That appearance was mentioned in the New York Herald Tribune and Home News on March 21 and the New York Age on March 30. However, Hall did not appear in any of the published lists of those arrested during the disorder, so there is no indication of what police alleged he had done. The charge of disorderly conduct cast him not as a participant in inciting others, breaking windows, looting, or assault, but as a member of the crowds police encountered on the street, perhaps near outbreaks of violence, and arrested either mistaking them for participants or to get them off the streets. His appearance in the Washington Heights Court indicated that Hall was arrested above 130th Street but there was no information on exactly where or when police took him into custody.

Magistrate Ford convicted Hall and sentenced him to five days in the Workhouse. Half of those convicted after being arrested for unknown activities received a similar term of fewer than ten days in the Workhouse.

Hall's home address was recorded as 28 West 132nd Street, in the heart of Black Harlem.

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