Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935Main MenuREAD ME: Help Navigating This BookIntroductionOn the StreetsIn the CourtsUnder InvestigationThe Mayor's Commission on Conditions in HarlemOver TimeEventsSourcesStephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfStanford University Press
Looting (56)
12020-02-25T19:43:29+00:00Anonymous125plain2020-03-31T21:20:43+00:00AnonymousNewspaper accounts generally identified looting as a second stage in the disorder, following a period of violence focused on smashing store windows. Arrests for breaking windows provide evidence for a distinction between damaging businesses and looting them. However, while most instances of looting for which evidence of timing exists did occur after midnight, scattered cases occur from the very beginning of the disorder. Those outbreaks also occurred in clusters south of 125th Street, towards the business district around 116th Street, as well north of 125th Street. After midnight, looting appears concentrated on Lenox Ave north of 125th Street, but clusters of activity continue to occur to the south.
12020-03-30T21:33:36+00:00AnonymousMorris Sankin's tailor's store looted7Store at 208 West 128th Streetplain2020-03-31T21:24:29+00:0003/19/1935 22:10Anonymous