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

Thomas Brown injured

Thomas Brown, a twenty-year-old man of unknown race was injured in “some unknown manner” at Lenox Avenue and 129th Street, according to hospital admission records.  Dr Payne attended Brown at Harlem Hospital, seven blocks north on Lenox Avenue, at 3.30 AM, so he was likely injured sometime around 3.00 AM. Jack Ponder was also injured, and James White, a Black man, assaulted, at the same place and treated by Payne at the same time. Outbreaks of looting and violence occurred on the blocks of Lenox Avenue north of 125th Street from about 1.30 AM. Brown lived only five blocks north, at 504 Lenox Avenue, so could have been part of the crowds of bystanders drawn by the noise and activity.

The hospital admission records and the lists of the injured in the New York Post and New York Evening Journal agree that Brown suffered a lacerated forehead. Six of those injured (30%) suffered similar head wounds. After being seen by Dr Payne, Brown went home, his injury evidently not serious enough for him to be admitted to the hospital.

Brown appeared only in the hospital records, which did not record information about his race.
 

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