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

Unnamed white man assaulted

A group of men allegedly attacked an unnamed white man at 125th St and Lenox Avenue some time during the disorder. Only the Home News provided any details of the circumstances in a story on March 21. It reported that Rivers Wright, a twenty-one-year-old Black man, was arrested "after he and a number of others are said to have attacked a white man at 125th St and Lenox Ave." Wright lived at 2137 7th Avenue, a block west and two blocks north of the site of the alleged assault, and in the heart of the disorder.

Wright, who appeared in several newspaper lists of those arrested during the disorder was among the first arraigned in the Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20. He was charged with disorderly conduct, not assault, as was the case with half of those arrested for assault. That charged suggested that police did not have evidence that he was involved in the assault. Instead, Wright was likely only among those at the scene, the only member of the crowd that police could apprehend. Magistrate Renaud found Wright guilty and on March 23 sentenced him to ten days in the Workhouse.

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