Oscar Johnson arrested for smashing window of Lenox Avenue tavern
- Title of event
- Oscar Johnson arrested for smashing window of Lenox Avenue tavern
- Type of event
- Arrest
- Address of event
- Oscar Johnson arrested for smashing window of Lenox Avenue tavern Happened Primarily at 114, Lenox Ave
- Report on event
- Oscar Johnson arrested for smashing window of Lenox Avenue tavern Main report referencing event Demands Denied, Hurls 2 Bottles
- Start date / time
- December 6, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Morning)
- Description
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One Oscar Johnson [aged 64], "entered [a Lenox Avenue tavern] Firday morning in a tipsy condition and demanded that [the proprietor, Andrew Ciccone] hire a colored bartender at once. Ciocone said that he had no reason for discharging the white man who had the job and explained that he employed two colored men as porters. This did not satisfy JOhnson, who is alleged to have tossed two bottles through a plate glass window." Johnson was arrested for the offense.