Ex-Servicemen Demonstrate At Robeson Concert
Received Mondav, 11.35 p.m. NEW YORK, Rept. 4. At loast 00 pe.rsons were injured today when auti-Communist demonstrators attacked cars and cnaches leaving derelict golf links outside Peekskill where the negro Communist singer, Paul Robeson, liad given an open air concert. Rtones and bottles wers showered by anti-Communist ex-service-men from treetops and rooftops on to many follo.wers of Robeson 's numbering 15,000 supporters, as they left the heavily guarded seene of the concert. Before and dnring the concert hun* dreds of police formed a human barricade between parading servicemen and the concert-goers who incTuded many negroes from Harlem, thus preventing a major clash. - The police, however conld not prevent the later clash. Peekskill Hospital r'eported that tht injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to concussion and broken bones. Pour were detained in hospital and the othera given first aid.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 September 1949, Page 5
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