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Telenews Daily, The (Re-Scheduled Concert Fighting - Peekskill Riots, 04Sep49)

Reel Number: 221455-17

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: USA

Location: Cortland Manor,Hollow Brook Golf Course,New York,Peekskill

TC Begins: 01:32:15

TC Ends: 01:35:45

Duration: 00:03:30

Telenews Daily, The (Re-Scheduled Concert Fighting - Peekskill Riots, 04Sep49) People at entrance to Peekskill w/ police on road w/ traffic & racists lining road jeering & catcalling (MOS). Rockland Coaches & other buses arriving. Women thumbing noses at arrivals, police pretend to move them back. 01:33:41 Man holding entrance sign; black w/ poster of Paul Robson on stick. Veterans led by marching band down road. Carry sign: Wake Up America Peekskill Did. Two lines of marchers, jeep & truck overloaded w/ protesters. Line of concert goers surrounding site. Pan over large crowd sitting on blankets. 01:34:52 Police fighting w/ crowd as people try to get at concert goers. People run into woods. Jostling & pushing. Police swing batons. Black men moved aside. Riot; Hollow Brook Golf Course; Racism; Racists; Anti-Communists; Anti-Communism; 1949;

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