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
[Photograph] "They didn't wait to have goods wrapped--so police suspect looting," New York Herald Tribune, March 21, 1935, 3.
12022-12-15T15:21:09+00:00Anonymous14plain2024-01-29T00:31:09+00:00AnonymousThis Associated Press photograph shows a Black man in the foreground carrying a full shopping bag labeled as coming from Rex Food Market at 348 Lenox Avenue, as well as what appears to be an alarm clock and at least one other item. Beside him a second Black man carries three metal boxes in his left hand, and in his right hand, just visible in the background, a full shopping bag of the same design as the first man. Behind the men are two white uniformed patrolmen; one on the left has his right hand on the jacket of the man in the foreground; and the one on the right has his baton raised to the level of the two men's heads. This is the same group as appears in a photograph published in the New York Evening News, taken from a position more directly in front of the men.