The Peekskill Riots: Episode Three “Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow”, 14 November | Event in Cold Spring

The Peekskill Riots: Episode Three “Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow”

Jon Scott Bennet

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Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm

2.5 hours

Julia L Butterfield Memorial Library

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Date & Location

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm (GMT-05:00)

Julia L Butterfield Memorial Library

10 Morris Avenue, Cold Spring, United States

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The Peekskill Riots: Episode Three “Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow”
Screening of the third episode of The Peekskill Riots docu-series and Q&A at the Butterfield Library.

About this Event

The Riot of August 27th, 1949 - The Peekskill Riots Ep. 3: "Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow"

On August 27th, 1949, a Paul Robeson concert was violently attacked outside Peekskill, NY. The concert was for the benefit of the Civil Rights Congress and advertised to the Jewish and Black working-class, summer residents in the Hudson Valley. The Peekskill Evening Star and local veteran's groups - harboring disdain towards Robeson and the summer residents - organized a protest parade to stop the concert from taking place. What transpired was a horrific riot, in which innocent men, women, and children hoping to attend Paul Robeson's concert were attacked. Years of bubbling hatred in Peekskill, NY finally burst.

This third episode of a 5-part docu-series focuses on the first of the two Peekskill Riots and the unprecedented level of violence that turned Peekskill from a small riverside city, into the center of national controversy.



Agenda


🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
"Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow" Screening

🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Q&A with Jon Scott Bennett


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Julia L Butterfield Memorial Library, 10 Morris Avenue, Cold Spring, United States
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Jon Scott Bennet

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The Peekskill Riots: Episode Three “Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow”, 14 November | Event in Cold Spring
The Peekskill Riots: Episode Three “Up on the Hillside, Down in the Hollow”
Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
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