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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Richard Jackson arrested

Richard Jackson appears in lists of those arrested for assault in the Black newspapers the Afro-American, Atlanta World and Norfolk Journal and Gazette, with no information on the events that led to his arrest or his alleged victim. A twenty-seven-year-old Black man who lived at 102 West 119th Street, he appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20 charged with the lesser offense of disorderly conduct, not assault. That offense did not involve any violence; instead it focused creating a disturbance of some sort, suggesting being part of a crowd rather than an assault. Disorderly conduct was also a charge that could be adjudicated in the Magistrates Court, where Magistrate Ford convicted Jackson. He sentenced him to just two days in the workhouse or a $5 fine. The New York Age reported his conviction, while  the New York Herald Tribune also reported the charge and sentence.

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