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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, suggest 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 gave a time for the assault on Hademan, but this intersection saw clashes between crowds and police around 10PM that seem likely to have been when he was assaulted. In that case, it seems likely that police assaulted Hademan, but he could have been assaulted by an individual, a group or hit by an object.

After being assaulted, an ambulance attended Hademan, and 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 does not appear in the hospital records. Those lists, and that in the New York Post, noted that no address was given for Hademan. The New York Daily News identified him as a resident of Castle Point in the Bronx (but did not identify his race, was alone in recording his injury not as a fractured skull but as lacerations of his face and head, and spelling his name differently). As with all the Black men assaulted during the disorder, no one was arrested or charged for assaulting Hademan.
 

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