Peekskill USA

published by the Civil Rights Congress, 1951
To Paul Robeson
1951. Peekskill: USA / a personal experience. introduction by William L. Patterson. 127 pp, 21 cm, [brown cloth, gold lettering]. Civil Rights Congress. New York.* the photo section of the book

Howard Fast's Peekskill Affidavit (Daily Worker, Sept. 13, 1949) Howard Fast's Eyewitness Account of Fascist Mob's Peekskill Attack (Daily Worker, Oct. 30, 1949) Peekskill, by Howard Fast (Masses and Mainstream 2:10(3) Oct. 1949) Peekskill, USA by Irwin Silber (Sing Out!, 1951) A Rough Sunday at Peekskill by Roger M. Williams, American Heritage, April 1976. The Peekskill Riot Howard Fast's account in Being Red (1990) The First Peekskill "riot": August 27, 1949 By Virginia Hirsch, 25 June 1998 50 Years later... Paul Robeson and the two Peekskills with Fred and Ginny Hirsch, Orchard Chronicles (1999) Peekskill USA: A Case Study in Resistance and Unity David Lethbridge, A review of "Peekskill USA" The Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies (Jan, 2001)

Howard Fast Peekskill USA The complete text Introduction by William L. Patterson Preface Part 1. The Quiet Beginning Part 2. The Night of Terror Part 3. Reaction on Sunday Part 4. The Picnic Grounds Part 5. The Golden Gate Part 6. The Second Night of Terror Part 7. A Point of View [photo section] Appendix I. Summary Conclusions of the ACLU Appendix II. On the Role of the Police Appendix III. The Victims Appendix IV. Daily Compass, 9/5/1949, by Leon Edel Appendix V. Was the Stoning Planned? Appendix VI. CBS On-the-Spot Recording Appendix VII. Anti-Semitism Appendix VIII. Aftermath

500 hardbound copies were numbered, and signed by Howard Fast, Paul Robeson (to whom it is dedicated), and William L. Patterson, who wrote the introduction. William Patterson signed this with "Ours is the victory, here is the proof" above his signature."

1951. pbk, 127 pp, 21 cm. Civil Rights Congress. New York.*
Printing history First Printing - January 1951 - 5,000 copies Second Printing - April 1951 - 3,000 copies Third Printing - October 1951 - 1,500 copies (from the 3rd printing)

2006. pbk, 144pp, ISBN: 0486452964, Dover Publications, New York.

1951. 83 pp, 22 cm, [grey paper boards, black lettering]. People's Publishing House, Ltd. Bombay.* cover painting of Paul Robeson at Peekskill by Soviet artists V. Poliakov, H. Shatz, and T. Radoman.

Publisher's Note, Introduction to the Indian edition
by Howard Fast and Paul Robeson.

1953	1954
1953, 1954. 110 pp, 20.5 cm, [brown cloth spine, white paper boards, red lettering] (publisher's note in Russian). Foreign Languages Publishing House. Moscow.*

translations

1951. Peekskill USA German. pbk. 20.5 cm, 147pp. translated by Günter Baganz. Dietz Verlag GmbH, Berlin

paper cover, in cellophane wraps with "obi" (advertising strip)
1952. ピークスキル事件 (Piikusukiru jiken [Peekskill Incident]). Japanese, tr. by Matsumoto Masao. 224 pp, 18.2 cm, pbk, Chikuma Shokyoku. Tokyo.*

1956. Pi-ko-ssu-chi-erh shih chien: i ko chin shen ti ching li. Chinese, tr. by Huang Hsing-chi, Kuo Kai-lan. 5, 3, 115 pp, 19 cm, Tso chia chu pan she. Pei-ching.

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