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

George Anton assaulted

George Anton, a forty-four-year-old white man, was assaulted by “several unknown colored men” on 7th Avenue between 126th and 127th Streets, according to a hospital admission record. Dr Reed of the Fifth Avenue Hospital attended Anton at 10.45 PM, so the alleged assault likely occurred around 10.15 PM. The assault occurred in an area reached by groups moving up the avenue from the intersection with 125th Street having been frustrated in their efforts to reach the Kress store. While there had been incidents of violence involving members of those groups since around 8:30 PM, they intensified around the time of the attack on Anton as more people left 125th Street. Police were only just beginning to be deployed to the blocks north of 125th Street, so there was little check on the crowds. Anton must have been in Harlem frequenting one of the businesses or entertainment on 125th Street or was leaving a job in one of the nearby businesses as he lived at 73 Washington Street at the opposite end of Manhattan.

The hospital record described Anton's injury as “laceration of right hand, abrasion of head and right knee.” Although more extensive than most of the wounds described in the admission records, they were not serious enough for Anton to be admitted to hospital. After treatment he left for home. Anton did not appear in police or court records, or in newspaper stories or lists, indicating that he did not make a report to police.

While the hospital records did not include information on an individual's race, the language specifying that his alleged attackers were "colored men" and the location of his home indicated that Anton was a white man.

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