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

Hugh Young injured

Hugh Young was at the intersection of Lenox Ave and West 129th Street around 1:30AM when he was cut by “flying glass.” The twenty-three-year-old man of unknown race lived a block north, on the corner of Lenox Avenue and West 130th Street, an area of black residents. He may have been a bystander drawn by the noise on Lenox Avenue at this time, when a number of incidents of looting took place. Another person, Alice Mitchell, was also injured by flying glass at the same time and place.

Hospital records record that a physician from Harlem Hospital treated Young for lacerations to his face, likely at the hospital, which was half a dozen blocks north on Lenox Ave. The same physician treated Mitchell. But unlike Mitchell, Young does not appear in any of the lists of the injured published by newspapers. Others injured by flying class suffered wounds to their legs (2), hands (1), and in one other case, to the head. After being seen by the physician, Young went home, his injury evidently not serious enough for him to be sent to the hospital.
 

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