Jan 22
A rent riot in the Bronx on January 22, 1932 threw a hundred policemen into battle against evicted tenants and 4,000 angry sympathizers. The tenants declared a rent strike when the owners refused to grant a 15 per cent reduction. The riot began when a city marshal arrived with a crew of laborers and a dozen police officers to serve warrants of eviction upon seventeen families in the building. In this picture, the furniture of some of the evicted tenants is piled up along the curb.
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