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

Lasalle Best, "History of the Harlem Lawyers Association," Negroes of New York Collection, Writers Program, WPA (Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Available in the New York Public Library Digital Collection: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/fa9cbba0-751e-0133-db43-00505686d14e#/?uuid=fa638280-751e-0133-dec2-00505686d14e

In the WPA Writers Program Negroes of New York Collection (1936-1941)

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Represented by a lawyer (18) Sixteen of those arrested in the disorder were represented by lawyers when they appeared in the Magistrates court, all in the Harlem court.

Harry Gordon's lawyer, Edward Kuntz, did not represent him in that first hearing, but did so subsequently.

Kuntz, and Joseph Tauber also took over from Aronksy and Englander as the lawyer of the four Communists arrested at the beginning of the disorder, representing them at their trial in the Court of Special Sessions.

Paul Boyett had a lawyer defend him in the Court of General Sessions. That lawyer was not recorded as appearing for him in the Harlem Magistrates Court. He was, like the other prominent Black lawyers who defended others arrested during the disorder, a member of the Harlem Lawyers Association. [All of those tried in CGS must have had lawyers - James Hughes]