A survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting joined Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday to announce a June rally in front of President Donald Trump's Manhattan apartment to protest gun violence eased by access to assault weapons.

Aalayah Eastmond, a junior at Stoneman Douglas High School, joined city high school students to speak at Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem for the minister's weekly Saturday meetings.

16-year-old Eastmond was in class Feb. 14 when a gunman fired through a window, eventually killing 17 people in her school.

"I was one of the students that had to cover herself with one of her dead classmates to survive," she said.

Dozens of people gathered at the meeting Saturday to denounce gun violence, and hear about the march organized by youth leaders to combat gun violence in urban communities — something organizers say is impacting young black people. It is a different focus than that of the "March For Our Lives" demonstrations that took place throughout the country two weeks ago.

The June 2 rally — at the beginning of New York state's Gun Violence Awareness Month — is to start at Trump International Tower on Columbus Circle and proceed toward Fifth Avenue and Trump Tower, where Trump has an apartment that has been his longtime home.

For Eastmond, New York is more than a prominent media staging ground. One of her family members was fatally shot in the city.

15 years ago, "I actually lost my uncle to gun violence in Brooklyn,'' she said. "So for it to happen to me, in my face, that just shows that change has to happen now.''

Sharpton said that young people leading recent activism across the country has produced what he called "a necessary marriage of dealing with gun violence as an American issue that jumps over the boundaries of any community and deals with America from every city.''

Another Sharpton concern is how police handle interactions with the mentally ill. On Thursday, police fatally shot a Brooklyn man, Saheed Vassell, as he brandished what turned out to be a welding torch that was mistaken for a gun.

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Among the June rally organizers is Ramon Contreras, 19, a senior at one of 11 NYC College Prep charter schools who lost a classmate to gun violence last October.

"He was only 17 years old,'' Contreras said. "The way it affected me, I was lost.''

He said everybody wanted to do something, but felt they did not have the resources. Contreras said the nationwide school walkout in March against gun violence gave them the courage to say "enough is enough."