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	Peekskill Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peekskill Riots were anti-communist riots in the city of Peekskill, New York in 1949.
		The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by fl singer Paul Robeson, who was well known for his strong stand on civil rights and his communist sympathies.
		Following the riots, more than 300 people went to Albany to voice their indignation to Governor Thomas Dewey, who refused to meet with them, blaming communists for provoking the violence.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peekskill_Riots (520 words)

	Peekskill, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is known as the site of the Peekskill Riots, although they technically occurred in the neighboring town of Cortlandt.
		Peekskill is the birthplace of current New York Governor George Pataki as well as T.C. Boyle (born 1948), Paul Reubens (a.k.a.
		Peekskill was incorporated as a village within the town of Cortlandt in 1816.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peekskill,_New_York (650 words)

	Encyclopedia: Peekskill Riot
		Peekskill is a city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Westchester County, New York) Westchester County, New York.
		Peekskill was incorporated as a village within the town of (Click link for more info and facts about Cortlandt) Cortlandt in 1816.
		Peekskill was the site of a (Stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface) meteorite fall on Oct. 9, 1992, just before midnight.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Peekskill-Riot (593 words)

	Peekskill Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Peekskill Riots were anti- communist riots in the town of Peekskill, New York in 1949.
		The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by fl singer PaulRobeson, who was well known for his strong stand on civil rights andhis communist sympathies.
		Following the riots, more than 300 people went to Albany tovoice their indignation to Governor Thomas Dewey, who refused to meet withthem, blaming communists for provoking the violence.
	www.therfcc.org /peekskill-riots-188457.html (449 words)

	Peekskill Riots - TheBestLinks.com - August 27, Communist, Ku Klux Klan, Paris, ...
		Peekskill Riots - TheBestLinks.com - August 27, Communist, Ku Klux Klan, Paris,...
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		The Peekskill Riots were anti-communist riots in the town of Peekskill, New York in 1949.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Peekskill_Riots.html (465 words)

	Robeson Peekskill Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peekskill, formerly part of the Town of Cortlandt, became a City in September of 1940.
		Peekskill with a population of about 18,000, had been carved out of the greater Town of Cortlandt in 1940.
		I have observed that the minority population of Peekskill has increased over the years and I have been impressed with the congeniality which is evident from the yearbook pictures and text.
	members.fortunecity.com /rondor3/peekskillriotspaulrobeson (4499 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Lessons of the Peekskill Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...A year ago, when the riots occurred, Peekskill was in a stage of transition and stress, still striving to adjust itself to the heavy influx of New Yorkers who come to pass the summer in its environs...
		...Peekskill was denounced from coast to coast and in the capitals of Europe, Asia, and South America as reactionary and fascistminded, a delinquent among American cities...
		...The city of Peekskill itself-it was a village up to ten years ago-is bounded by the Hudson River on the west, and on its other three sides by the little town of Cortlandt, which places it in an unnatural kind of economic and political strait jacket...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V10I4P15-1.htm (10146 words)

	Westchester County Weekly \| Holding the Line in Peekskill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John J. Curran, the historian for the city of Peekskill, is not happy with the renewed interest in the Peekskill riots.
		Defense Secretary Louis Johnson came to Peekskill before the second concert and lectured local American Legioners about the evils of the Russian enemy, and praised the veterans for being "awake" to the dangers of the Soviet Union.
		Elie agrees that the term "Peekskill riots" is controversial.
	personals.westchesterweekly.com /articles/peekskill.html (1946 words)

	HVCCA :: The Peekskill Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her painting captures aspects of Peekskill channeled through her creative process, which is based on intuition and the unconscious.
		This project, a city within a city, is a microcosm of a community within the greater community of Peekskill that both co-exists within the city and also serves as a reflection of the values and structures that define our notion of township.
		Reflecting Peekskill’s industrial history, this kinetic sculpture is made of utilitarian materials and constructed as modern scions to the derelict barge.
	www.hvcca.com /pp2005-artist-projects (4420 words)

	Peekskill riots, per Howard Fast
		The entrance to the Lakeland picnic grounds is a left turn off the main road as you drive from Peekskill; the entrance is double, coming together in a Y shape to a narrow dirt road.
		He told me he was a railroad worker, a Peekskill resident, and had been drawn into this because he belonged to the local Legion post.
		I doubt that Peekskill is much remembered, even by those who call themselves revisionists in the historical sense and who try to include in our history hundreds of happenings like the incidents at Peekskill, artfully omitted by the scholarly establishment.
	www.trussel.com /hf/peekskll.htm (5269 words)

	Peekskill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is known as the site of the Peekskill Riots, although theytechnically occurrred in the neighboring town of Courtlandt.
		Out of the total people living in poverty, 17.8% are under the age of 18 and 8.4% are 65 orolder.
		George Pataki was a Peekskill mayor and was the first upstateGovernor since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	www.therfcc.org /peekskill-234628.html (432 words)

	Orchard Chronicles Summer 1999
		The riots and concert at Peekskill, New York fifty years ago, are almost unknown to Americans today.
		At Peekskill, New York in August 1949 there was to be a benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress of Harlem.
		AH: The Grand Jury declared that the riots were the fault of the concert goers.
	home.earthlink.net /~ahickling/summer99.html (2767 words)

	Ryan McNamara Riot Gear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unlike riot suits worn by correctional agents attempting to subdue crowds, these suits are to be worn by individuals whose thoughts are met with resistance on a daily basis.
		While traditional riot gear utilizes hard plastics and thick fabrics, this suit provides its wearer with soft and warm reassurance while softening blows to the body.
		Like sausage casing, the riot gear holds the internal riot in while protecting it from the external riot its exposure can incite.
	www.ryanmcnamara.com /RiotGear.htm (176 words)

	Teen Help Programs - Private Schools Online Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	The Peekskill, New York, Anti-Communist Riots of 1949 (Studies in Twentieth-century American History: ...
		A study of the anti-communist riots of 1949 in Peekskill, New York, offering insights into the nature of American anti-communism in the early Cold War.
		In the summer of 1949, the Cold War came to Peekskill, New York, as two proposed Paul Robeson concerts were marred by the protests of local veterans' organizations.
		The riots, and anti-communism in general, have long been portrayed as the result of political manipulation.
	bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp /guest/cgi-bin/booksea.cgi?ISBN=0773471766 (243 words)

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		Peekskill is to the U.S. Civil Rights movement what Peterloo was to the Working Class movement in 19th-century England and Jalianwalla Bagh to India's national movement.
		The Peekskill Post of the American Legion had attacked Robeson at Albany in 1947 and issued a warning against his Peekskill concert in 1948.
		After Peekskill, federal, State, and local legislations of "dubious constitutionality" threatened freedom on all sides.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl1510/15100780.htm (1963 words)

	The Peekskill Story (Part 1 & 2) (Mario Casetta) (1949),
		Between 20,000 and 25,000 persons came to Peekskill for the rescheduled concert: most came to show solidarity in the face of local hostility.
		Howard Fast was the narrator: the singers were the Weavers - Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman - a group primarily known through its appearances at hoots and on Oscar Brand's WNYC show.
		The Peekskill riots were an unsubtle threat that drew leftists together.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/parton/2/peekskill.html (1520 words)

	Chronology
		Despite many death threats and other ominous warnings published in newspapers and aired on radio over the previous week, the second Peekskill concert is held successfully, under the protection of a well organized, but unarmed, security guard of 2,500 friends and trade unionists, who form a human "wall" encircling the concert area.
		Following the Peekskill riots, other cities become fearful of similar incidents, and many scheduled concerts are cancelled.
		It emphasizes that “Peekskill is by no means an isolated instance of the violation of the constitutional rights of American citizens.” It speaks of “increasing mob violence and brutal atrocities against Negro citizens” in several states, as well as “police brutality and murder” going unpunished.
	www.sonic.net /~april9/Chronology_6.htm (3846 words)

	Peekskill florist, flower delivery, bouquets, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		New York NY Peekskill flower delivery :: Peekskill florist :: send flowers, roses to Peekskill :: New York NY.
		Geography Peekskill is located at 41°17'20" North, 73°55'12" West 41.288903, -73.919987.
		But when Nell comes across the most loving man who has ever lived, she can't help but doubt her resolve.
	www.florist-flowers-roses-delivery.com /new_york/peekskill_ny.html (384 words)

	Peekskill, New York - TheBestLinks.com - Census, Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 29, Paul Reubens, ...
		Peekskill, New York - TheBestLinks.com - Census, Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 29, Paul Reubens,...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Peekskill.html (503 words)

	The Peekskill, New York, Anti-Communist Riots of 1949
		In the future when the historian sifts through the debris of our era, oversaturated with information, once the dross has been cast aside, more than a few of the things that remain will be bound in the covers of The Edwin Mellen Press.
		In the summer of 1949, the Cold War came to Peekskill, NY, as two proposed Paul Robeson concerts were marred by the protests of local veterans’ organizations.
		He treats Peekskill as a window into Cold War American society and culture, shedding valuable light on the vexing question of why these riots occurred where and when they did and what they tell us about the tensions tearing Cold War American society apart.
	www.mellenpress.com /mellenpress.cfm?bookid=4771&pc=9 (334 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		I know you two appeared in a concert together the day of the Peekskill riots.
		The first concert was supposed to be August 27, 1949, but a mob came in during the afternoon and beat up the people setting up the stage, chairs and public address system.
		About five or ten years ago, I was singing in Denver, and a man my age came backstage afterward and said, "Pete, you were at Peekskill, weren't you?" I said yeah.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/July99/archive-seeger.html (3091 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Patterson was writing about the infamous FBI-instigated attacks on peaceful crowds of trade unionists, Black, Brown and white, who had converged on a meadow near Peekskill, N.Y., that evening, to listen to Paul Robeson sing.
		Years of struggle against Cold War repression were to follow the Peekskill riots, 50 years ago this month.
		But Patterson's words ring out as true today as in 1949: It is the unity of the working class, Black, Brown and white, that blocks fascism and defends the Bill of Rights.
	www.pww.org /past-weeks-1999/Edit%202-%20Remember%20%20Robeson.htm (231 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Eye-Witness: Peekskill" TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY: The article by James Rorty and Winifred Raushenbush ["The Lessons of the Peekskill Riots," in the October issue] refers (p.
		...In view of the serious implications of charges of Communism in the present climate of opin- ion, I believe that the members of the Com- mittee for a Fair Inquiry into the Peekskill Violence are entitled to a fair and full retraction in your pages...
		...The parent com- mittee was established the day after the first riot, at a meeting addressed by Howard Fast and William L. Patterson...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V10I5P95-1.htm (1308 words)

	Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The riots saw men who had recently returned from war, look at each other across a gap that seemed insurmountable.
		What happened in Peekskill reflected the social and political climate of the United States as it moved into the Cold War.
		Photos of the sign "Wake Up America, Peekskill Did" were carried in newspapers across the country as a symbol of anti-Semitic, anti-union and racist sentiment endorsed by some members of the community.
	www.highlands.com /robeson/voices.html (395 words)

	Peekskill New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is known as the site of the Peekskill Riots, although theytechnically occurrred in the neighboring town of Cortlandt.
		Peekskill is located at 41°17'20" North, 73°55'12" West (41.288903, -73.919987) 1.
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	www.elusiveeye.com /side11559-peekskill-new-york.html (781 words)

	That was a strange year, I949. \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The riots were egged on by editorials in the local paper, and they catered in this verbiage, to an anti-Jewish crowd, since many Jews would go to that area for summer vacationing.
		Oh, and Clever Sheep, would you mind pointing me to where "scenes [like Peekskill] are still being enacted on a regular basis in our great nation, only on a smaller scale." The left-wing critics I see and hear are publishing books, getting tenure, being interviewed on NPR, and buying advertisements in the NYT.
		I thought the story was so incredible I immediately looked for alternate accounts such as this Peekskill Riots site, a Paul Robeson site containing contemporaneous letters to the editor of the Peekskill newspaper, and this article on the riots and the songs it inspired.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/29935 (2060 words)

	This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land:
		The occasion for the riot was a Paul Robeson concert scheduled for September 4, 1949, at the Lakeland Picnic Grounds near Peekskill.
		Media reaction to the Peekskill riots reflected the degree to which anti-communism characterized public opinion.
		On September 12 Newsweek reported that Peekskill was "a smashing propaganda triumph" for communists.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1996-7/Spivey.html (4725 words)

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