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

Lamter Jackson arrested

Sometime during the disorder, Officer Jackson of the 32nd Precinct arrested Lamter Jackson, a twenty-four-year-old Black man, for allegedly throwing a rock that shattered the window of a store selling unclaimed laundry at 1 West 131st Street and then taking a bag of laundry from the store. The only source of details of the event was the report of Jackson's appearance in the Magistrates' Court published by the Home News. Officer Jackson was identified as the arresting officer in Magistrates Court docket book. Lamter Jackson lived at 78 West 135th Street. There were multiple lootings and assaults on the stretch of Lenox Avenue between his home and the laundry store, noise and crowds which could have brought Jackson on to the streets. Several other men arrested in this area — Lawrence Humphrey, Carl Jones, Raymond Taylor, and Preston White, likewise lived in the blocks of 135th–132nd Streets between Lenox and 5th Avenues.



Jackson was listed among those charged with burglary in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, and the New York Evening Journal. Both those lists flip his name, identifying him as Jackson Lamter; the Home News and the docket book recorded him as Lamter Jackson. He appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, charged with petit larceny, not burglary. That charge did not require the evidence of breaking in and entering a store to take merchandise that burglary did. Magistrate Ford sent Jackson to the Court of Special Sessions and held him on $100 bail. For some reason, just over two months passed before Jackson's trial took place. On May 27, the magistrates convicted him and sent him to the Workhouse for thirty days, an outcome found only in the 32nd Precinct records.

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