The Battle of Peekskill (silent)

Description: Content warning: White racist violence against Black and Jewish people.

Newsreel documenting the Peekskill Riots, "a series of violent attacks by mobs of white citizens directed against African Americans and Jews attending a civil rights benefit concert in Westchester County, New York, in 1949. More than 150 people were injured in the riots." (Black Past, www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/peekskill-riot-1949/. Accessed: 2024-05-06).

Image only; no sound.

Can notes: 'Battle of Peekskill' / 22-281-3 / BW b-wind FGM"

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Subjects: 1940s, Civil rights, Communism, Racism

Tags: Stanley Tucci & Son Distinctive Memorials sign; People's Artists Present Paul Robeson poster; Rockland Coaches Inc bus; Oust The Commies sign; protests; knives; clubs; police batons; assemblies; concerts; Paul Robeson; violence; crowds; police officers; smashed car windows; overturned cars; Peekskill Riots; anti-semitism; labor history; anti-union; anti-Communism; Jewish people; anti-communist; Wake Up America Peekskill Did sign; racist violence

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Universal Newsreel

Credits: Universal-International News

Voice: Ed Herlihy

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1949

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; New York; Peekskill, New York; Westchester County, New York

Genre/Form: newsreel

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: finegrain master

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 67