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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 HarlemEventsSourcesStephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfStanford University Press
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12022-10-17T21:49:38+00:00Anonymous115plain112024-02-21T01:17:14+00:00Stephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfOver time, descriptions of what happened in 1935 came to emphasize the economic and social conditions that caused Harlem's residents to turn to violence to protest. Those accounts, often relying on the report of the Mayor's Commission of Conditions in Harlem (MCCH), would briefly and typically inaccurately summarize the events and aggregate the results of the violence. Clashes between Black residents and white men and women and police violence against Black residents appeared only fitfully in those descriptions. As a result, the extent to which racial violence changed in 1935 remained obscured.