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Rivers Wright arrested
Only one story provides any details of the circumstances of his arrest. The Home News reported on March 21 that Wright was arrested "after he and a number of others are said to have attacked a white man at 125th St and Lenox Ave." Wright appears in lists of those arrested during the disorder in the Afro-American, Atlanta World, Norfolk Journal and Gazette, New York American, New York Evening Journal, and New York Daily News. His sentencing several days later is also reported in the Afro-American, New York Age, New York Daily News, and New York Times.
Among the first arraigned in the Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20, Wright was charged with disorderly conduct, not assault, as was the case with half of those arrested for 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 Renaud convicted Wright and remanded him for sentence on March 23. On that date, Magistrate Renaud sent him to the Workhouse for 10 days.
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- New York Penal Law, § 722-724: Disorderly Conduct
- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Guide, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- "Riot Deaths Mounting Daily as Fourth Victim Succumbs. Extra Police Still on Duty; Many Sentenced to Workhouse Terms," New York Age, March 30, 1935, 1
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book
- "Harlem Riot Prisoners and Charges," New York American, March 20, 1935, 4.
- "Blamed for Riot, Harlem Girl Fined. Disorders Fatal to Three Laid to Her Screaming in Store Where Boy Stole Knife," New York Times, March 24, 1935, 19.
- "Dodge Plans War on Reds," New York Daily News, March 24, 1935, 4.
- "Harlem's Third Rioter is Dead; Many Are Fined," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 12.
- "Jailed for Rioting," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 4.
- "Police Guard Against New Uprising as Mayor Acts to Probe Race Riot," Home News, March 21, 1935 [clipping]