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

Joseph Fernandez arrested

Joseph Fernandez, a twenty-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 Fernandez. That appearance was mentioned in the New York Herald Tribune and Home News on March 21 and the New York Age on March 30. Fernandez did not, however, appear in any of the published lists of those arrested during the disorder. The charge of disorderly conduct 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 Fernandez and sentenced him to thirty days in the Workhouse. He imposed that sentence on just under half of those charged with disorderly conduct when there are no details of their alleged offenses.

Fernandez's address was recorded in the docket book as 15 West 118th Street.

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