A 12 minute film about the concert by Jim Lawrence
Pictures from the summer of 2009 at the site of the concert.
It is now the Hollow Brook Golf Club
1060 Oregon Road
Coutlandt Manor, NY 10567
Location on Google Maps
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/
An article from The Times Union, a news organization in New York’s Capital Region
Rememberingh the Peekskill Riots of 1949 (August 23, 2023)
https://www.timesunion.com/history/article/peekskill-riots-paul-robeson-racism-18279119.php/
A list of books by Howard Fast
http://www.trussel.com/hf/peekskill.htm
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