Harlem 6 - Origin of Name

Origin of Name

The band's name comes from a true story. A group of six young African-American and Hispanic teenage men from the 1960s who were wrongly accused for heavy crimes that took place on 125th Street and Madison Avenue in Harlem, New York, two of whom where murdered without evidence to support the charges. The media gave the group the name The Harlem Six, and the name is still used today in memory of the six young men.