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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM, John E. Norem <jnorem at cox.net> wrote:
> On September 4, 1949, an angry crowd surrounded the 20,000 friends of Paul
> Robeson who had come to hear him in an open-air concert at Peekskill, New
> York. After the event right-wing, anti-communist inspired mobs attacked
> supporters who were leaving the event. These attacks included smashing the
> windows of Pete Seeger’s automobile with several family members inside.
> Sixty years later we remember the great progressive Paul Robeson, his
> struggles for justice, and his refusal to bow to the politics of reaction.
>
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