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Investigations of the events of the disorder
Additional records gathered by the MCCH shed light on the events of the disorder, although some may have been obtained for the study of crime in Harlem rather as an investigation of the disorder. As such, they would have been gathered after the public hearings had ended, or at least after May 1st when E. Franklin Frazier was appointed to direct the survey of conditions in Harlem, so at his direction rather than that of Arthur Garfield Hays.
A list of those arrested during the disorder was transcribed from the 28th Precinct Police blotter. It was not a complete list of those arrested within that precinct; nor was it a complete list of those arrested during the disorder, as arrests were made in the 32nd Precinct as well. This transcript was likely compiled from a set of index cards, each recording that information for an individual arrested in 1935. The cards were filed in the MCCH "Harlem: Survey" files by Precinct as "Police Report," indicating that they were gathered as part of the investigation of crime. In addition to the 28th Precinct, there are cards from the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th and 32nd Precincts. One other police record obtained by MCCH staff were the entries from Aided Cases book of the 32nd Precinct for the period of the disorder. Procedure required police to record all incidents reported to them in that book. The document was a summary of four cases sent by the precinct commander to Inspector Di Martini.
Copies were made of two sets of hospital records related to the events of the disorder. "Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935" listed individuals attended by physicians at specified locations around Harlem, and appeared to be a record of ambulance activity. The second list, "Hospital Admissions, 19-20 March 1935," included individuals attended by physicians without specifying a location, and appeared to be a record of emergency room activity at hospitals, not all of which resulted in individuals being kept in a hospital for treatment.
MCCH staff also collectedf 2900 newspaper clippings "in connection with "Disturbance of March 19th" as well as "Commission Releases." Back issues for the days immediately after the disorder were ordered from eighteen newspapers: twelve major white New York City publications, the city's two major Black newspapers, the New York Age and New York Amsterdam News, together with three other Black publications, the Afro-American, the Pittsburgh Courier and the Norfolk Journal and Guide, and the Communist publication the Daily Worker. Articles on the disorder from national magazines were also collected: the New Republic, the Nation, Newsweek, Times, Commonweal, the NAACP's Opportunity and the Communist-aligned New Masses. Those clippings were not all in the MCCH files, but all the publications are among the sources for this study.
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- "Back Copies Ordered," Mayor's Committee on Conditions in Harlem: Newspaper Clippings, Departmental Correspondence, Box 34, Folder 7 (Roll 171), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- "March 19th Events," Mayor's Committee on Conditions in Harlem: Newspaper Clippings, Departmental Correspondence, Box 34, Folder 7 (Roll 171), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945