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

In the Magistrates Court (118)

One hundred and eighteen men and women police arrested during the disorder were arraigned in one of the two Magistrates Courts whose jurisdiction encompassed Harlem in the days after the disorder. Police arrested ten additional men, but there is no evidence that they appeared in court.

Eighty-one of those men and women were arraigned in the Harlem Magistrates court, having been arrested in the 28th Police Precinct below 130th Street. Thirty-two other men and women were arraigned in the Washington Heights court. Two additional men were arraigned in the Night Court during the disorder. The final three men were recorded as having been discharged in the 28th Precinct blotter, so should have been arraigned in the Harlem court but did not appear in the court's docket book.

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