Windows smashed in Chinese laundry that hung 'Me Colored Too' sign
- Title of event
- Windows smashed in Chinese laundry that hung 'Me Colored Too' sign
- Type of event
- Riot (March) - Windows broken
- Address of event
- Windows smashed in Chinese laundry that hung 'Me Colored Too' sign Happened Primarily at 367, Lenox Ave
- Report on event
- Windows smashed in Chinese laundry that hung 'Me Colored Too' sign Main report referencing event 'Me Colored Too' Sign Fails Harlem Chinese
- Start date / time
- March 19, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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"His Negro neighbors hung signs bearing the world 'Colored' in their store windows on reports that the rioters would not molest places occupied by Negroes. The laundryman hung out a large placard inscribed 'Me colored too." Some one promptly smashed his window."