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

William Holland assaulted

At 1.40 AM, William Holland a 46-year-old man, was “struck by an unknown object” at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. Looting had broken out on Lenox Avenue north of 125th Street around this time, producing other outbreaks of violence.

The only report of the assault is a hospital admission record of a physician from Harlem Hospital treating Holland for a laceration of his scalp. The injury was not severe enough to require he be admitted, so Holland left for his home, four blocks to the south of where the assault occurred, on West 121st Street near Seventh Avenue.

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"Hospital Admissions, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).