The Peekskill riots took place at Cortlandt Manor, New York in 1949. The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by black singer Paul Robeson...

his son Edwin and nephew Harold Smith in 1885. The well-publicized Peekskill Riots of 1949 involved attacks and a lynching-in-effigy occasioned by Paul...

entertainer and activist Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York to benefit the Civil Rights Congress resulted in the Peekskill riots. These were caused in part by members...

(race riot) 1949 – Anacostia Pool Riot, June 29, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. (race riot) 1949 – Peekskill riots, Peekskill, New York (race riot) 1949...

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Fairground Park riot, June 21, St. Louis 1949: Anacostia Pool Riot, June 29, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. 1949: Peekskill riots, Peekskill, New York 1949:...

to decry the use of their community to support "subversives". The Peekskill riots ensued in which violent anti-Robeson protests shut down a Robeson concert...

Grand Prairie, Texas Peekskill riots: One thousand anti-Communist demonstrators picketed an open-air concert by Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York. Violence...

Airport Homes race riots 1946: Columbia, TN – Columbia race riot of 1946 1949: Cortlandt Manor, NY – Peekskill riots (anti-communist race riots against Jews...

from the family's library of 50,000 materials. Photos from the 1949 Peekskill riots capture the beating of Eugene Bullard by two policemen, a state trooper...

2020-03-06. Retrieved 2016-03-14. Frillmann, Karen. "Today in History: Peekskill Riots" Archived 2021-01-08 at the Wayback Machine. WYNC (New York), 4 September...

The Daily Worker, June 1, 1949 Frillmann, Karen. "Today in History: Peekskill Riots". WYNC (New York), 4 September 2009. Accessed 25 January 2015. "CHUM...

chronological list of known riots. 205–186 – BC The great revolt of Egypt against Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 48 BC – 47 BC – Riots during the Siege of Alexandria...

at least expel him from the party." During a debate about the 1949 Peekskill Riots in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York, Rankin again used...

v. Rice (1948) Rosana Aubert v. Orleans Parish School Board (1948) Peekskill riots of 1949 Virginia referendum on poll tax (1949) Texas referendum on...

Against Lynching We Charge Genocide Progressive Party Freedomways Peekskill riots Writings and speeches Freedom newspaper I Want to Be African Negroes—Don't...

v. Rice (1948) Rosana Aubert v. Orleans Parish School Board (1948) Peekskill riots of 1949 Virginia referendum on poll tax (1949) Texas referendum on...

Against Lynching We Charge Genocide Progressive Party Freedomways Peekskill riots Writings and speeches Freedom newspaper I Want to Be African Negroes—Don't...

denounced by politicians and the media, and in the case of the 1949 Peekskill Riots, subject to mob attack. In general, the significance of lyrics within...

Against Lynching We Charge Genocide Progressive Party Freedomways Peekskill riots Writings and speeches Freedom newspaper I Want to Be African Negroes—Don't...

of 1898 Pana riot Robert Charles riots Evansville race riot Atlanta Massacre of 1906 Springfield race riot of 1908 Johnson–Jeffries riots 1912 racial conflict...

Regarding Robeson and the Peekskill riots of 27 August 1949, Hollenbeck said that, while most newspapers had covered the riots well, the New York World-Telegram...

Against Lynching We Charge Genocide Progressive Party Freedomways Peekskill riots Writings and speeches Freedom newspaper I Want to Be African Negroes—Don't...

1949 – Paul Robeson performs a second concert in Peekskill, New York eight days after the Peekskill riots. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural...

more than 150 race riots that erupted across major cities in the United States during the summer of 1967. In June there were riots in Atlanta, Boston...

Against Lynching We Charge Genocide Progressive Party Freedomways Peekskill riots Writings and speeches Freedom newspaper I Want to Be African Negroes—Don't...

The Danville Massacre, also known as the Danville Riot, was a deadly assault on African Americans at a Danville, Virginia market November 3, 1883 and continued...

Nelson. Ida B. Wells "Strange Fruit" (1937) by Abel Meeropol Tulsa race riot (1921) Associated Press, 1911: "At Okemah, Oklahoma, Laura Nelson, a colored...

she had formed part of the Paul Robeson concert that ended in the Peekskill Riots.) Little information about her appears thereafter, and her name is...

classical pianists Leonid Hambro and Ray Lev in Peekskill, New York, that sparked the Peekskill Riots on September 4, 1949. The Weavers were present....