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Loyola Williams arrested
In the case of Loyola Williams, it is also possible that whoever compiled the list mistakenly recorded the name of another Black woman arrested during the disorder, Viola Woods, who was identified as Viola Williams in several sources. Both women were twenty-eight-years of age and resided at 301 West 130th Street. Both Loyola Williams and Viola Williams appear in the list published in Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Gazette, with Viola Williams charged with Malicious Mischief. Viola Williams also appears in the 28th Precinct Police Blotter with the same age and address, where a note records her alleged offense as using her umbrella to break a store window. It is possible given the charges brought against others arrested in the disorder that that woman would also have been charged with burglary on the basis that was her goal in breaking the window. In the Harlem Magistrates Court docket book, the name of the woman charged with Malicious Mischief is recorded as Viola Woods not Viola Williams.
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- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Guide, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- "List of Those under Arrest in Harlem Riot and the Charges They Face," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 3.