Two Thousand Harlemites Attend Meeting
- Title of event
- Two Thousand Harlemites Attend Meeting
- Type of event
- Meeting
- Address of event
- Two Thousand Harlemites Attend Meeting Happened Entirely at 8, Edgecombe Ave
- Report on event
- Two Thousand Harlemites Attend Meeting Sole event referenced by Healy and Mellen Are Heard at Meeting on Reapportionment
- Start date / time
- January 15, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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The Harlem Political Union sponsored a meeting which two thousand Harlemites attended to rally support for sending 100 delegates to to Albany to petition Legislature for reapportionment (by providing for a Negro congressmen and state senator). Placards were distributed throughout the hall and speakers who addressed the crowd included Martin J. Healy, the Democratic leader of the Nineteenth Assembly District.