Radio store looted and burned
- Title of event
- Radio store looted and burned
- Type of event
- Riot (March) - Looting
- Address of event
- Radio store looted and burned Happened Primarily at W 130th St & Lenox Ave
- Report on event
- Radio store looted and burned Main report referencing event 1 Dead, 100 Hurt as Harlem Mobs Riot Over Boy, 16, And Hearse
- Start date / time
- March 20, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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[Approximate location] A group of 35 blacks set fire to Raffer's radio store soon after midnight, and tried to prevent policeman from sounding an alarm - 'let it burn' they shouted. When firemen came, they hindered them too, bustling about hydrants and shoving hose lines about - when firemen threatened to turn the hose on them, they dispersed