Peekskill USA

In "Peekskill, USA," Howard Fast provides a gripping firsthand account of the violent anticommunist riots that erupted in Peekskill, New York, in 1949 during a civil rights benefit concert featuring prominent figures like Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger. Drawing from historical documents, photographs, and newspaper reports, Fast details the chaos as a mob armed with weapons attacked the event, highlighting the broader societal tensions of the era and the brutal beating of Eugene Bullard, the first black combat pilot in the US Air Force.