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
12020-02-24T22:52:32+00:00Injured in assaults (49)39plain2023-12-15T20:16:42+00:00Forty-nine of the fifty-four assaults resulted in injuries; four other assaults involved attacks on vehicles that damaged cars and smashed windows, but did not result in reported injuries. (The final assault, on Thomas Wijstem resulted in his death three months after the attack, but the man who allegedly assaulted him was charged with assault so the event is included in that category). Those injuries and their apparently limited severity relative to those resulting from violence in Harlem at other times in 1935 provide some evidence of the nature of the violence during the disorder.
Assaults other than shootings resulted primarily in head injuries of various kinds.
In terms of the type of assault, the largest proportion of those head injuries came when someone was hit by objects. Assaults by groups produced a wider variety of injuries than assaults by individuals, with wounds to the face, eyes, and nose as well as stab wounds in addition to head wounds, in contrast to the head and hand injuries resulting from attacks by individuals.
