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

John Hademan assaulted

John Hademan, a twenty-six-year-old Black man, suffered a fractured skull at 126th Street and 7th Avenue. The circumstances in which he was assaulted are uncertain. The New York Herald Tribune and New York Times, the two reports that gave a location for the assault on Hademan, suggested that other violence occurred at the same time: the New York Times described Hademan as being assaulted “in a melee,” while the New York Herald Tribune described the context as “rioting.” Neither included a time for the assault on Hademan. The only group with whom Black residents fought during the disorder were police, who wielded batons that produced head injuries. One possible time for police to have assaulted Hademan was around 9:30 PM, when officers began to deploy north on 7th Avenue from 125th Street. By 9:45 PM, they were making an arrest a block further north, with another arrest in that area at 10:10 PM.



An ambulance attended Hademan after he was assaulted and then took him to Harlem Hospital, according to the report in the New York Times and the lists of the injured in the New York Evening Journal, New York Herald Tribune, and New York American. However, he did not appear in the hospital records. Those lists, and that in the New York Post, noted that no address was given for Hademan. The Daily News identified him as a resident of Castle Point in the Bronx, but that story was likely not reliable as it did not identify his race, was alone in not recording his injury as lacerations of his face and head, and spelled his name differently than the other reports. As with all the Black men assaulted during the disorder, no one was arrested or charged for assaulting Hademan.
 

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