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

John Eigler assaulted

John Eigler, a forty-five-year-old man, was walking on 7th Avenue at 122nd Street around 1am, only a few feet from his home at 163 West 122nd Street, when he was hit by an object thrown from a group of black men. Half an hour earlier Fred Campbell’s car had been hit by rocks at the same intersection as he drove up 7th Avenue. Other assaults, as well as looting occurred in the surrounding blocks of 7th Avenue, and a block west on 122nd Street, indicating the presence of crowds throughout the disorder.

Only hospital records record the assault on Eigler. He received treatment at Harlem Hospital for cuts on his head, a common injury for those hit by objects in the disorder, and departed for home. The block of 122nd Street east of 7th Avenue where Eigler lived was in transition in the 1930s, from mostly white and Puerto Rican residents in 1930 to all black residents by 1940.
 

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