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Click to enlargePeekskill USA: Inside the Infamous 1949 Riots

Howard Fast
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ISBN: 0486452964
Page Count: 144
Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 8
In the late summer of 1949, a racist mob protesting a concert by African-American singer Paul Robeson assaulted working class blacks and whites with rocks and bottles in upstate New York. Fast's compelling and detailed you-are-there account of the violence records a landmark in the civil rights movement. 10 illustrations.
Reprint of the Civil Rights Congress, New York, 1951 edition.

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