Mass Protest Meeting on WPA Discrimination
- Title of event
- Mass Protest Meeting on WPA Discrimination
- Type of event
- Meeting
- Address of event
- Mass Protest Meeting on WPA Discrimination Happened Entirely at 132, W 138th St
- Report on event
- Mass Protest Meeting on WPA Discrimination Sole event referenced by Call Mass Meeting To Protest WPA & Home Relief Discrimination
- Start date / time
- October 22, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Evening)
- Description
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"Charging that discrimination is rampant in the W.P.A. and challenging the arbitrary dismissals of 1,500 workers in Home Relief in view of the attendant hardships resulting to Harlem families, the Joint Conference Against Discriminatory Practices announced this week that they are calling a mass protest meeting at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 West 138th Street, on Wednesday evening."