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

In the Court of General Sessions on March 28 (2)

The appearances of both James Hughes and Milton Ackerman were reported in a New York Times story that covered legal proceedings involving individuals arrested in the disorder in the grand jury, Court of General Sessions and the Harlem court. It mentioned that Hughes pleaded guilty to third degree assault of a police officer, and the judge's discharge of Ackerman on a charge of burglary for taking rolls of paper and a napkin. The story, the only one to mention the appearance, contained no information on why the judge released Ackerman. (The New York Times would later report Hughes subsequently withdrew his guilty plea and was tried and convicted.)

The two Hearst newspapers the New York Evening Journal and New York American published essentially the same story that reported Hughes' plea, together with the grand jury proceedings, but not the Harlem court case. The New York American added the date when Hughes would be sentenced.  All three newspapers identified him as a shoemaker.

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