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- Harlem race riot of 1935, a riot that occurred in the Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem on March 19–20, 1935. It was precipitated by a teenager’s theft of a penknife from a store and was fueled by economic hardship, racial injustice, and community mistrust of the police. It is sometimes considered the first modern American race riot.
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The Harlem riot of 1935 took place on March 19, 1935, in New York City, New York, in the United States. It has been described as the first "modern" race riot in Harlem, because it was committed primarily against property rather than persons.
Harlem race riot of 1935, a riot that occurred in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem on March 19–20, 1935. It was precipitated by a teenager’s theft of a penknife from a store and was fueled by economic hardship, racial injustice, and community mistrust of the police.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 13, 2024 · On March 19, 1935, Lino Rivera, a Black Puerto Rican teen from Harlem, was caught stealing a 10-cent penknife from Kress Five and Ten store on 125th Street.
- Missy Sullivan
Jun 17, 2008 · The Harlem Riot of 1935, the first in New York City in the 20th Century, was the consequence of a lingering unemployment crisis and police brutality. At 2:30 p.m. on March 19, 1935, a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican boy named Lino Rivera stole a 10 cent penknife from the Kress Five and Ten store on 125th Street.
Dec 12, 2016 · The riots caused the mayor of New York to investigate the degree of discrimination that African Americans and immigrants were receiving during the Depression, but the results sickened him and he refused to let them be published.
Mar 1, 2019 · Three black men were killed, including another young man who was returning from the movies. More than 100 men were arrested; at least 100 people suffered wounds, chiefly from falling glass and thrown objects; and 250 stores sustained damage.
On March 19, 1935, a white store owner in Harlem, New York accused a dark-skinned Latino boy, Lino Rivera, of shoplifting a knife. After a scuffle, in which Rivera, aged ten, struck a store clerk, the police arrested him.
