IAFA's first public meeting was held on 23 July 1935, with another public meeting taking place on Sunday, 28 July at Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London, and was widely reported in newspapers.[1][2][3][4] Throughout the summer of 1935, the IAFA passed resolutions urging all Africans and people of African descent to help Abyssinia and called upon the League of Nations and the British Government to protect Abyssinia.[1] On 26 August, the IAFA organised a rally in Trafalgar Square which drew a crowd of nearly five hundred supporters.[5]