Sept 4, 1949: A Concert at Peekskill (Actually Cortlandt Manor), New York

Click here to hear a recording about the concert from
a 78 RPM record made by Howard Fast and others.


Pictures from the summer of 2009 at the site (I think) of the concert.

 

It is now the Hollow Brook Golf Club
1060 Oregon Road
Coutlandt Manor, NY 10567
http://www.mapquest.com/mq/1-asYl2D*E

An excerpt about the concert from the book Being Red (1990), Howard Fast's memoir of his life on the left,
pages 226-239.
It is a reprint of a report he wrote for the Civil Rights Congress soon after the concert:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/peekskill.html

An article from the Jewish Daily Forward - Sixty Years Since the Peekskill Riots
http://www.forward.com/articles/113279/

A list of books by Howard Fast
http://www.trussel.com/hf/peekskill.htm


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