Peekskill USA: Inside the Infamous 1949 Riots by Howard Fast

Peekskill USA: Inside the Infamous 1949 Riots

Howard Fast

127 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
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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...

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