On September 4, 1949, Paul Robeson was driven from a concert in Peekskill, New York by an unruly mob in an event now known as the Peekskill Massacre.
Hear a description of that event from Robeson’s pianist, Leonid Hambro, as well as a profile of Robeson by Spokane citizens Eleanor Chase, Carl Maxey, and Ray Keeble in a Spokane Public Radio special from 1999 produced by Verne Windham.