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
"Participants in Noon Wedding Ceremony at Quaint Little Church Around the Corner," New York Amsterdam News, July 13, 1935, 8.
12022-08-18T17:30:27+00:00[Carlton Moss], Untitled account of the disturbance on the night of March 19, Harlem Survey: March 19th, Box 131-123, Folder 7, E. Franklin Frazier Papers (Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Howard University).11Carlton Moss was a twenty-six-year-old Black actor who, after he arrived in Harlem, wrote radio plays, and would later help lead the Federal Theater Project.plain2024-01-18T20:26:53+00:00This first person narrative was unsigned. However, a letter filed separately in the Frazier Papers from Carlton Moss dated November 12, 1935, refers to an enclosed account of the disturbance on the night of March 19. Moss may have been encouraged to send the account by his wife, Annie Laurie Savage, who worked for the MCCH as supervisor of the study on "Family Organization and Disorganization" and later as the "Intake Interviewer for the study of social control." The couple married on July 6, 1935, in a wedding reported in a long story in the society pages of the New York Amsterdam News.
Carlton Moss was a twenty-six-year-old Black actor who, after he arrived in Harlem, wrote radio plays, and would later help lead the Federal Theater Project. He also worked for the Federal Writers Project on "Negroes of New York," for which he authored a brief account of the MCCH public hearings, titled "The "Peoples Court," based on his observations of those proceedings.