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

Unidentified assault

Police arrested Richard Jackson for an assault about which no details survive of the alleged victim or the circumstances of the violence. Jackson appears in lists of those arrested for assault in the Black newspapers the Afro-American, Atlanta World and Norfolk Journal and Gazette, which included only his name and the charge. He appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, recorded in the docket book as charged with the lesser offense of Disorderly Conduct, not assault, and identified as a twenty-seven-year-old Black man who lived at 102 West 119th Street, . Magistrate Ford convicted Jackson, but sentenced him to just two days in the workhouse or a $5 fine. The New York Age reported his conviction, while  the New York Herald Tribune also reported the charge and sentence.

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