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Battle's Pharmacy windows broken
No one arrested during the disorder was identified as charged with breaking windows in the pharmacy. The MCCH business survey misidentified Battle's Pharmacy as a white-owned business. Walter Battle's obituary in the New York Amsterdam News identified him as a Black man born in North Carolina, educated at Biddle University and Columbia University, who opened the drug store in 1932. He is named as the pharmacist at the store in a New York Amsterdam News advertisement in 1936. The store is still visible in the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941.
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- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tracts #223-24 (28)," 1935, Roll 80, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).
- Edward P. Flynn, "Communists Inspired Harlem Riots, Survey Shows," New York Evening Journal, March 23, 1935, 5.
- "Walter Battle, Buried Here, Pharmacist," New York Amsterdam News, October 29, 1960, 4.
- [Advertisement] "Battle's Pharmacy," New York Amsterdam News, October 24, 1936, 7.