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The MCCH's final report
Frazier gave his chapter a different form and tone than the subcommittee's report based on his interpretation of the testimony and other material gathered in the investigation, likely including newspaper stories. He combined fragmentary police testimony with press reports to describe the fluid patterns of events beyond 125th Street and to include a wider range of Harlem residents than hoodlums among those who participated in the disorder. Frazier chose not to include details of those killed and arrested and the property damage. Instead, his assessment that the disorder was "an attack upon property and not upon persons" directed attention away from the violence of the disorder. At the same time, he adopted the Communist Party claim that its members had prevented interracial violence. Although the audiences at the hearings made an impression on Frazier — to the extent that he devoted a chapter of the report to defending their role in the hearings — his criticism of police diminished somewhat the intense antagonism described by the subcommittee. Despite those changes, MCCH members objections were limited to Frazier's praise for the role of Communists in preventing violence. However, while they did remove praise for the contribution of Communists in the public hearings and some Marxist language from other chapters, they ultimately retained that section.