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Henry Blackwell assaulted
Blackwell suffered a lacerated scalp. The injury was serious enough that someone called an ambulance, but not so bad that the physician who attended him took him back to Harlem Hospital. After treatment Blackwell instead returned home. Although he consequently appeared in the hospital records, newspaper reports did not include him in any lists of the assaulted or injured. As with all the Black men assaulted during the disorder, no one was arrested or charged for assaulting Blackwell.
Henry Blackwell still lived at the same address five years later, when the census enumerator called, in an apartment with at least eight other lodgers, working as a WPA laborer for the Parks Department. His situation had been very different when recorded by another enumerator for the 1930 census. Then Blackwell had lived several blocks further north at 201 West 132nd Street, with his wife of eighteen years and a thirteen-year-old daughter, and worked as a driver for a family while his wife worked as a hairdresser. There is no record of what became of his family between 1930 and 1935.