Research Guide: New York Riots

Books at LaGuardia | Books within CUNY | Articles | Primary documents | Web Sites & online sources

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CUNY+ Subjects:

• Riots
• Riots -- New York
• Riots -- United States

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Books at LAGUARDIA:

• Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  Call no.: HV6477 .A38 2007
  eBook version
• Arnesen, Eric. Black protest and the great migration: a brief history with documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
  Call no.: E185.6 .A76 2003
• Anderson, Jervis. This was Harlem: a cultural portrait, 1900-1950. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982.
  Call no.: F 128.68 .H3 A65 1982
• Bernstein, Iver. The New York City draft riots: their significance for American society and politics in the age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  Call no.: F128.44 .B47 1991
• Biondi, Martha. To stand and fight: the struggle for civil rights in postwar New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2003.
  Call no.: F128.9 .N4 B56 2003
• Boskin, Joseph. Urban racial violence in the twentieth century. Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press, 1976.
  Call no.: HV 6477 .B6 1976
• Brandt, Nat. Harlem at war: the Black experience in WWII. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996
  Call no.: F 128.68 .H3 B65 1996
• Capeci, Dominic J. The Harlem Riot of 1943. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1977.
  Call no.: Reference F128.68 .H3 C36
• New York (N.Y.). Mayor LaGuardia's Commission on the Harlem Riot of March 19, 1935. The complete report of Mayor LaGuardia's Commission on the Harlem Riot of March 19, 1935. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
  Call no.: F 128.68 .H3 A53
• Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
  Call no.: Reference E184 .A1 E573 2007
• Gordon, Michael A. The Orange riots: Irish political violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  Call no.: F 128.9 .I6 G67 1993
• Greenburg, Cheryl. Or Does It Explode?: Black Harlem in the Great Depression. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
  Call no.: F 128.68 .H3 G74 1991
• Johnson, Marilynn S. Street justice: a history of police violence in New York City. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, c2003.
  Call no.: HV8148 .N52 J63 2003
• Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression. New York : Grove Press, 1983.
  Call no.: JK2391.C53 N56 1983
• Petry, Ann. "In Darkness and Confusion." (1947). In Chapman, Abraham (ed). Black voices; an anthology of Afro-American literature. New York: New American Library, 1968.
  Call no.: PS 508.N3 C5
• Reporting civil rights. Part 1. American journalism: 1941-1963. New York: Library of America: Penguin Putnam, 2003.
  Contains an article by Richard Wright that appeared in the NY Post about the Harlem Riot of 1943.
  Call no.: E185.61 .R47 2003

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BOOKS AT OTHER CUNY LIBRARIES

How to request a book from another CUNY library

• Capeci, Dominic J. Layered violence: the Detroit rioters of 1943. Jackson: University of Mississippi, c1991.
  CUNY holdings
• Gilje, Paul A. Rioting in America. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996.
  CUNY holdings
• Heaps, Willard A. Riots, U.S.A, 1765-1970. New York: The Seabury Press, 1970.
  CUNY holdings
• Lee, Alfred McClung. Race riot. New York, N.Y., The Dryden Press, inc., 1943.
  CUNY holdings
• Mitchell, J. Paul. Race riots in Black and White. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1970.
  CUNY holdings
• Powell, Adam Clayton. Riots and ruins. New York, R.R. Smith, 1945.
  CUNY holdings

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ARTICLES

• Adams, George R. "Riot as Ritual: Ann Petry's "In Darkness and Confusion"
  Negro American Literature Forum, (6) 2 (Summer, 1972), 54-57+60.
  Full-text via JSTOR
• Agee, James. "After the Riots: New York City race relations in 1943." Harper's 306 (June 2003): 27-31.
  Full-text via Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Edition
• Allred, Jeff. "From Eye to We: Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy."
  American Literature, Sep 2006; 78: 549 - 583.
  Full-text via Project Muse
• Baldwin, James. "Harlem Hoodlums" Newsweek. 9 Aug. 1943.
• Capeci, Dominic J. "From Different Liberal Perspectives: Fiorello H. La Guardia, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Civil Rights in New York City, 1941-1943" The Journal of Negro History. 62(2) (Apr. 1977), 160-173.
  Full-text via JSTOR
• Clark, Kenneth B. "GROUP VIOLENCE: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE ATTITUDINAL PATTERN OF ITS ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION: A STUDY OF THE 1943 HARLEM RIOT." Journal of Social Psychology, May 1944,19 (2), 319-337.
  Full-text via SocINDEX
• "OPA Establishes Office in Harlem." New York Times. 7 Aug. 1943, 13.
  Full-text via Proquest Historical Newspapers
• "Curfew In Harlem Relaxed to 11:30." The New York Times. 4 Aug.1943, 8.
  Full-text via Proquest Historical Newspapers
• "Police Ease Curbs With Harlem Quiet." The New York Times. 5 Aug. 1943, p. 17.
  Full-text via Proquest Historical Newspapers
• Greenberg, Cheryl. "Politics of Disorder: Reexamining Harlem’s Riots of 1935 and 1943" Journal of Urban History, 1992, 18: 395-441.
  Call no. has in print, 1982-present
• Jackson, Lawrence P. "The Birth of the Critic: The Literary Friendship of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright." American Literature, Jun 2000; 72: 321 - 355.
  Full-text via Project Muse
• Johnson, Marilynn S. (1998). "Gender, Race, and Rumours: Re-examining the 1943 Race Riots." Gender & History 10 (2), 252–277.
  Full text via EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier
• Nelson, Bruce. "Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality During World War II." Journal of American History, 80 (1993), p 980.
  Full-text via JSTOR
• Swan, L. Alex. "THE HARLEM AND DETROIT RIOTS OF 1943: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS." Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1971-1972, 16(1), 75-93.
  Not available at LaGuardia - Available at Queens College
• White, Walter. "Behind the Harlem Riot." New Republic. 16 Aug.1943, 221.
  Not available at LaGuardia - Baruch and Hunter have on microfilm

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Primary Sources Availability

Mainstream Press

• New York Times, 1851-2005 -- Proquest Historical Newspapers Database
• Life Magazine, Baruch, Brooklyn, & Hunter
• Newsweek, Baruch, Brooklyn, & Hunter
• Time Magazine, Baruch, Brooklyn, & Hunter

Communist Press

• Daily Worker, City College, microfilm, 1919-1965
• New Masses, City College, microfilm, 1926-1948

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Web Sites & Online sources

• Harlem History. Columbia University. 2004. http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/harlem_history/ -Created to mark the 250th anniversary of Columbia University. Its content–which reflects the efforts of people across the University–will remain online through 2005.
• "Have you read Ann Petry?" Harlem History: Arts & Culture: Farah Griffin.
  http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/harlem_history/griffin.html
  Farah Griffin, director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and professor of English and comparative literature and African-American studies, discusses Harlem through the eyes of Ann Petry, a novelist, journalist, and social activist, who wrote about life in Harlem during the 1930s and 1940s.
• Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York) : its origin and early annals, prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration ; also, sketches of numerous families, and the recovered history of the land-titles. New York, 1881.
  http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ANY6388
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)
  http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
• "In Motion: The African American Migration Experience.
  http://www.inmotionaame.org

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Created by Elizabeth Namei
Last update April 2, 2009