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

Fred Bain injured

Fred Bain, a forty-four-year-old man of unknown race, suffered lacerations of his forehead likely some time after 2:30 AM . He was one of six of those reported injured with wounds to the head (30%). Bain appeared only in ambulance call-out records, which described the injury as having been received “during riot.”

Dr Sayet from Harlem Hospital attended Bain at his home in 227 West 127th Street at 2:47 AM. This was an area of Black residents only two blocks north of where the disorder began and close to many outbreaks of violence. Bain remained at home after the physician attended him as his injury was evidently not serious enough for him to be taken to the hospital. His name did not appear in any of the lists of the injured published by the press. The ambulance records did not include information on a patient's race. However, Bain's address makes it very likely that he was a Black man.

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"Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).