The Free Lance-Star (June 30, 1943)
Federal troops stop threatened race riot
Passaic, New Jersey (AP) –
Federal troops held a crowd of several hundred persons in check to prevent a threatened race riot last night, after city police had left the scene in belief the danger was over.
Persons at the scene, the intersection of Main Avenue and Summer Street, said the trouble started when some soldiers left a tavern and became engaged in an argument with some Negro girls. A report that one of the men had knocked down a 16-year-old girl spread through the neighborhood and the crowd collected.