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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 around 3.30AM. Jack Ponder was injured and James White, a black man, assaulted at the same time and place, following a similar cluster of injuries there two hours earlier. Outbreaks of looting and violence occurred on the blocks of Lenox Avenue north of 125th Street from about 1.30AM. Brown lived only five blocks north, on Lenox Avenue, so could have been part of the crowds of bystanders drawn by the noise and activity.

The hospital admission records and the New York Evening Journal list of the injured in which Brown appeared agree that he suffered a lacerated forehead. Six of those injured (30%) suffered similar head wounds. A physician from Harlem Hospital attended Brown, likely in the emergency room of the hospital, six blocks north of where he was hurt. After being seen by the physician, Brown went home, his injury evidently not serious enough for him to be sent to the hospital.
 

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