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

Jack Berry arrested

Jack Berry, a thirty-three-year-old Black man was recorded in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book as charged with disorderly conduct on March 20. There was no information on when or where police arrested Berry. That appearance was mentioned in the New York Herald Tribune and Home News on March 21 and the New York Age on March 30. He also appeared in the list of those arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide, but not in any of the lists published in white newspapers. Berry was listed among those charged with disorderly conduct, a charge that gave cast him not as a participant in inciting others, breaking windows, looting or assault, but as a member of the crowds police encountered on the street, perhaps near outbreaks of violence, and arrested either mistaking them for participants or to get them off the streets.

Magistrate Ford convicted Berry and sentenced him to three days in the workhouse. Half of those convicted after being arrested for unknown activities received a similar short term of less than ten days in the workhouse.

Berry's residence was in the heart of Harlem, at 142 West 131st Street, according to the docket book.

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