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

Injured in assaults (49)

Forty-nine of the fifty-four assaults resulted in injuries; four other assaults involved attacks on vehicles that damaged cars and smashed windows, but did not result in reported injuries, and Thomas Wijstem died three months after the attack on him led to a prosecution for assault. Those injuries and their limited severity relative to those resulting from violence in Harlem at other times in 1935 provide some evidence of the nature of the violence during the disorder.

Assaults other than shootings resulted primarily in head injuries of various kinds. The largest proportion of those head injuries came when hit by objects. Assaults by groups produced a wider variety of injuries than assaults by individuals, with wounds to the face, eye and nose as well as stab wounds in addition to head wounds, in contrast to the head and hand injuries resulting from attacks by individuals.

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