Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roughly with nightsticks, made arrests right & left. At this critical point a hearse drove up, destined for a house in the neighborhood. "They've come for the child's body!" shrieked a black woman. For the rest of the night most of Harlem gave itself over to riot, pillage and bloodshed...
Whose Fault? Only in the inflammatory shorthand of the tabloid Press was that night's ruckus in the largest Negro centre in the U. S. described as a RACE RIOT. Black citizens did not fight white citizens as they did in the inter-racial affrays at Chicago, East St. Louis, Philadelphia and Washington a decade and a half ago. But last week's Harlem riot was New York City's most violent civil disturbance in 35 years. Whose fault...
With the indictment of 16 ringleaders (including a bumptious young white radical from nearby College of the City of New York) for assault, burglary and incitement to riot, Tammanyite District Attorney William C. Dodge loudly attributed the whole affair to a Communist plot, started a grand jury investigation. Negro Communist Solomon Harper, War veteran, inventor and member of the radical League of Struggle for Negro Rights, absolved his organization of complicity, denied any connection with the Young Liberators whose members, he said, were all in their ''early twenties...
Speaking more soberly for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Managing Editor Roy Wilkins of The Crisis declared that it was "a great mistake to dismiss the riot as a demonstration of a few Communists and agitators." Dr. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches, echoed this view: "We cannot make the Communists the scapegoats for a basic condition which made possible such a hysteric outburst." Most sociologists agreed with Dr. Searle that the "basic condition" was economic discrimination against New York's Negroes, which had in turn...
Freshmen competing on the photographic end find themselves in a rush of activity, for they must supply the CRIMSON with a pictorial record of Harvard's spring frivolities. As a result they spend April and May in the midst of riot and mob scenes...