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

Herbert Holderman injured

Around 1.20AM, Herbert Holderman was “cut by flying glass when some unknown persons broke windows of stores” on Lenox Avenue at 132nd Street. Alice Mitchell and Hugh Young were also injured by flying glass three blocks south around 1.00 AM, as part of an outbreak of looting on the blocks north of Lenox Ave north of 125th Street around 1.30AM.

Holderman, like Mitchell and Young, was treated by Dr. Payne at Harlem Hospital, likely in the emergency room. He does not appear in the hospital records, but in the 32nd Police Precinct book of aided cases. Three newspaper lists of the injured also included Holderman, but the only information that they provided on his identity was his home address, 73 East 128th Street, an area of mixed black and white residences on the eastern boundary of Harlem. The police record did not specify where Holderman was cut. The lists disagree on his injury; the New York Post recorded it as laceration of his hands, the Daily News and New York Evening Journal of his face. He was one of four of those injured with wounds to the hands (20%). After being attended by a physician, Holderman went home, indicating the wound was not serious enough to require him to be admitted to hospital.
 

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