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

In the Daily News

[Photograph] "As Harlem Recovers From Night of Terror," Daily News, March 21, 1935, 3.
[Photograph] "Casualties of Race War," Daily News, March 21, 1935, 3.
[Photograph] "Fires Follow Rioting in Harlem," ACME, March 19, 1935
[Photograph] "Lino Rivera leaving the Grand Jury rooms yesterday...," Daily News, March 22, 1935, 28.
[Photograph] "Man is down in the street during the riot in Harlem," Daily News, March 20, 1935
[Photograph] "Patrol wagon disgorges its cargo of prisoners at Harlem Court," Daily News, March 21, 1935, 1.
[Photograph] "Policeman with riot gun stands guard at 125th St. and Seventh Ave.," Daily News, March 20, 1935, 1.
[Photograph] “Sex was disregarded in riot," Daily News, March 21, 1935, 30.

Newspapers

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Full caption: "One Man down...one tries to flee...policeman tries in vain to hold the rioters within bounds...racial hatred ran riot in America's largest colored colony. After making this picture, The News photogrpaher was struck down and went to hospital. He suffered lacerations of the scalp." Other edition caption: “One man is falling down and another tries to flee as policeman attempts to keep rioters in line at 125th St. and Seventh Ave. Trouble was started when organized group of radicals inflamed district over reported injury to colored boy in a 125th St. Kress chain store.”