Peekskill Riots Episode 2 Sources

I. “Henry Hudson Dreams and Obsession” by Corey Sandler, pg. 167

II. Robert Wilde. "Iron in the Industrial Revolution."

III. “The Peekskill, New York, Anti-Communist Riots of 1949” by Joseph Walwik, pg. 37

IV. “Peekskill, a Friendly Town, Its Historic Sites and Shrines” by Chester Allen Smith, pg. 80

V. The Birth of a Nation, Dir. D. W. Griffith, Epoch Producing Co., 1915

VI. “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” by James W. Loewen, pg. 21

VII. “The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America” by Wyn Craig Wade, pg. 138

VIII. “MAPPING THE SECOND KU KLUX KLAN, 1915-1940” John T. Kneebone and Shariq D. Torres, Virginia Commonwealth University,

IX. "Structural Incentives for Conservative Mobilization: Power Devaluation and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 1915–1925 Social Forces, Vol. 77, No. 4" by Rory McVeigh, pg. 1463, and US Census Bureau

X. Putnam County Courier, 2/29/1924 “Ku Klux Klan Visits Adams Corners Grange

XI. Putnam County Courier, 2/29/1924 “Ku Klux Klan Visits Adams Corners Grange

XII. Putnam County Courier, 4/4/1924 “Ku Klux Klan Members Visit Cold Spring Church”

XIII. “The School that Putnam Valley Built” by Israel Ben Scheiber, pp 4-5

XIV. Scheiber, pg. 5

XV. Cross Burning Sources:

A. Cold Spring: Putnam County Courier, 8 December 1922 “Firey Cross Seen at Cold Spring”

B. Stony Point: Pearl River News, 15 January 1923, pg. 1 “K. K. K. MEMBERS AHEND CHURCH”

C. Mahopac: Putnam County Courier, 26 January 1923 pg. 4 “Ku Klux Order Instituted Here”

D. Kent: Putnam County Courier, 23 February 1923, pg. 6 “Ku Klux Burns Cross in Kent”

E. Kent Cliffs: Putnam County Courier, 2 March 1923, pg. 1 “Second Cross Burned Near Kent Cliffs”

F. Yonkers: March 16, 1923, pg. 3 “KLAN CROSS STIRS YONKERS.”

G. Peekskill 6: Tarrytown Daily News, 15 May 1923, pg. 1 “Peekskill K.K.K. Takes 75 Members into the Empire”

H. Nyack: Nyack Evening Journal, 9 August 1923, pg. 1 “HUGE FIERY CROSS SET BURNING ON ERIE TRACK NEAR MARSILIO SALOON”

I. Palisades: Nyack Evening Journal, 20 August 1923, pg. 1 “KU KLUX KLAN VISITS CHURCH AT PALISADES PRESENTING $50 PURSE”

J. Katonah: Putnam County Courier, 7 September 1923, pg. 6 “POSSE AT KATONAH SEEKS KLAN AS CROSS BURNS”

K. Haverstraw: Rockland County Times, 15 September 1923, pg. 1, “MISCREANTS AT WORK, Crude Imitation of Klux Klan in Early Morning Fire”

L. Nyack 2: Nyack Evening Journal, 28 September 1923, pg. 1 “BOMB IS EXPLODED AND CROSS LIGHTS MOUNTAIN | AS TALL CEDARS PARADE”

M. Nyack 3: Nyack Evening Journal, 4 October 1923, pg. 1 “HOT DOG" BLAZE - TAKEN FDR FIERY CROSS OF KLAN”

N. Mt. Beacon: Rockland County Times, 1 December 1923, pg. 5 “K.K.K. Activity”

O. Mahopac Falls: Putnam County Courier, 29 February 1924, pg. 3 “Ku Klux Klan Burns Cross at the Falls”.

P. Manhattan 1: New York Times April 4, 1924, pg. 7 “FIERY CROSS BRINGS COLUMBIA NEGRO AID”

Q. Armonk: May 11, 1924, pg. 17 “BURN CROSS ON CHURCH LOT”

R. Haverstraw 2: Rockland County Times, 7 June 1924, pg. 4 “Ku Klux Klan Again Active”

S. Brewster: Putnam County Courier, 20 June 1924, pg. 7 “Cross Burned Here”

T. Carmel: Putnam County Courier, 11 July 1924, pg. 1 “CROSS BURNED ON HILL HERE SATURDAY EVENING”

U. Putnam Valley 3: Putnam County Courier, 1 August 1924, pg. 6 “Ku Klux Cross Burned at Camp Rossbach”

V. Putnam Valley: Putnam County Courier, 22 August 1924, pg. 4, Ku Klux Klan Serve Refreshments

W. Hartsdale: Scarsdale Inquirer, Number 40, 30 August 1924: Fiery Cross Seen Near Hartsdale

X. Pearl River 2: Pearl River News, 9 October 1924, pg. 3 “KLAN MEETS HEREKLAN ENROLLS FIFTY MEMBERS AT MEETING”

Y. Sloatsburg: Pearl River News, 9 October 1924, pg. 6 “ELECTRIC CROSS LIGHTED BY KLAN IN RAMAPO”

Z. Putnam Valley 2: Putnam County Courier, 3 October 1924, pg. 1 “KU KLUX INITIATES AT ADAMS CORNERS”

AA. West Nyack: Pearl River News, 4 June 1925, pg. 5 “200 Initiated at Klan Meeting”

BB. Peekskill: Putnam County Courier, 17 July 1925, pg. 4 “BRILLIANT DEMONSTRATION OF KLANSMEN SATURDAY”

CC. Upper Nyack: Nyack Evening Journal, 1 October 1925, pg. 1 “Klan Holds Its Initial Rally Here”

DD. New City: Nyack Evening Journal, 18 November 1925, pg. 1 “KLAN DENIES PART IN BURNING CROSS AT CHURCH EVENT”

EE. Peekskill 2: Putnam County Courier, 16 July 1926, pg. 6, “KU KLUX KLAN HOLD ITS ANNUAL OUTING”

FF. Tuckahoe: Tuckahoe Record, 5 August 1926, pg. 7 “SECOND KU KLUX KLAN SCARE HERE”

GG. Eastchester (Twice): Eastchester Citizen-Bulletin, 11 August 1926, pg. 4 “SECOND KLAN CROSS”

HH. Brewster 2: Putnam County Courier, 13 August 1926, pg. 8 “Storm Prevents Klan Initiation”

II. Eastchester 3: Eastchester Citizen-Bulletin, 18 August 1926, pg. 8 “Ku Klux Cross Bums In Vacant Plot Here”

JJ. Tuckahoe: Eastchester Citizen-Bulletin, 25 August 1926, pg. 1 “Another Klan Cross Blazes In Tuckahoe”

KK. Ramapo Hills: Ramapo Valley Independent, 6 May 1927, pg. 4 “Personal News of the Town Folks”

LL. Nyack 4: Nanuet Life, 6 May 1927, pg. 9 “Klansmen Burn Cross upon Point Lookout”

MM. Peekskill 3: Tuckahoe Record, 14 July 1927, pg. 16 “Westchester Klansmen Hear Attacks On Governor Smith and Catholicism”

NN. Brewster 3: Putnam County Courier, 9 September 1927, pg. 8 “Ku Klux Klan Field Day at Brewster”

OO. Bronxville: Bronxville Press, 24 February 1928, pg. 1 “Burning Cross Is Found By Village Police”

PP. Mahopac 2: Putnam County Courier, 24 February 1928, pg. 4 “Crosses Burn as Ku Klux Klan Change Name”

QQ. White Plains 2: The New York Times September 16, 1928, pg. 18, “CROSS BURNED AT STORE”

RR. High Tor: Rockland County Evening Journal, 8 November 1928, pg. 2 “Burning Cross Seen On Top of High Tor”

SS. Verplanck: Tarrytown Daily News, 9 November 1928, pg. 13 “Troopers Sift Cause of Riot at Verplancks”

TT. Valhalla: The Daily Press, 5 July 1929, pg. 6 “Burn Cross at Valhalla”

UU. White Plains: The New York Times, 17 April 1930, pg. 22 “MOVES TO OUST NEGROES.”

VV. Peekskill 4: Putnam County Courier, 5 September 1930, pg. 1 “KLANSMEN AT BIG PEEKSKILL RALLY”

WW. Harrison and Rye: Bronxville Press, 26 February 1932, pg. 1 “FIERY CROSSES CELEBRATE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY”

XX. Yorktown: Journal News, 8 September 1936, pg. 1 “100 WESTCHESTER KLAN MEMBERS AT CONCLAVE”

YY. Peekskill 5: Bronxville Press, 10 September 1936, pg. 10 “Bronxvilie Clansmen Attend Large Rally”

XVI. Putnam County Courier, 4/25/1926, pg. 16, “Klan Warns Couple”

XVII. Peekskill Highland Democrat, 7/17/1926, pg. 1, “KU KLUX KLAN INITIATES THIRTY AT ANNUAL OUTING NEAR PEEKSKILL”

XVIII. Putnam County Courier, 7/17/1925, pg. 4, “Brilliant Demonstration of Klansmen Saturday”

XIX. “The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–32” by William E Leuchtenburg, pp 225-240

XX. New York Times, 11/9/1928, pg. 3, “Klan Parade Ends in General Fight”

XXI. The Ku Klux Klan, a brief biography by K. A. Appiah & H.L. Gates Jr.

XXII. Bronxville Review, 9/18/1936, pg. 4, “Klan Kollapse”\

XXIII. “The Robeson Riots, Two Incidents which foreshadowed the rise of McCarthyism” by Michael K. McKeon, pg. 50

XXIV. Walwik, pg. 44

XXV. McKeon, pg. 51

XXVI. “Violence in Peekskill” by ACLU, pg. 9

XXVII. McKeon, pg. 53

XXVIII. Peekskill Evening Star, 4/26/1949, pg. 4, “Says Peekskill Should Welcome Summer Visitors”, Letters to the Editor,

XXIX. Violence in Peekskill, pg. 9

XXX. McKeon, pg. 51

XXXI. New York Post Home News, 9/27/1949

XXXII. Peekskill Evening Star, 11/4/1948, pg. 1 “County G.O.P. Shocked, But Still Undismayed”

XXXIII. Walwik, pg. 45

XXXIV. “Followers of the Trail” by David Leviatin, pg. 210

XXXV. “Leftist Summer Colonies of Northern Westchester County, New York” by Baila Round Shargel, pg. 343

XXXVI. Shargel, pg. 344

XXXVII. “World of Our Fathers” by Irving Howe, pg. 339

XXXVIII. “The Colony: Road Four Celebrates the Fiftieth Anniversary of Goldens Bridge Colony, 1927-1977 “(n.p., I978), by Maxie Arons, pg. 3

XXXIX. Golden’s Bridge 75th Anniversary, 2002, Golden’s Bridge Colony

XL. Shargel, pg. 346

XLI. Shargel, pg. 339

XLII. Fan Weber Interview, 8/24/1991, Putnam Valley Historical Society, Barbara Doyle

XLIII. Labor Day Show at Three Arrows, 1989, Putnam Valley Historical Society

XLIV. Shargel, pp. 341-342

XLV. Preamble of the Mohegan Colony, 1923

XLVI. “Open Pages”, Mohegan Colony, 1932

XLVII. Shargel, pg. 343

XLVIII. Shargel, pg. 344

XLIX. Leviatin, pg. 210

L. Violence in Peekskill, pg. 7

LI. Leviatin, pg. 219

LII. Fan Weber Interview, 8/24/1991, Putnam Valley Historical Society, Barbara Doyle

LIII. McKeon, pg. 57

LIV. “Jews of Westchester”: A Social History” by Baila Shargel and Harold Drimmer, pg. 154

LV. McKeon, pg. 57

LVI. McKeon, pg. 6

LVII. “The Great Fear- The Anti Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower” by David Caute, pg. 87

LVIII. “Seeds of Repression” by Athan Theoharis, pg. 7

LIX. McKeon, pg. 9

LX. Walwik, pg. 20

LXI. Truman Doctrine Speech, 3/12/1947, Paramount News. Harry S. Truman Library

LXII. Caute, pg. 269

LXIII. Theoharis pp. 106-107

LXIV. McKeon, pg. 16

LXV. Caute, pp. 169-170

LXVI. “Paul Robeson” by Martin Duberman, pg. 307

LXVII. (Paul Robeson: Here I Stand, Dir. St. Claire Bourne, Eagle Rock Entertainment, 1999.)

LXVIII. Paul Robeson's Testimony before the U.S. Senate's Mundt Bill Hearings, 1948, Vincent Voice Library

LXIX. New York Times, 4/19/1947, pg. 10 “ROBESON IS IN PEORIA BUT FAILS TO SPEAK”

LXX. New York Times, 5/7/1947, pg. 23, “SUIT FACES ALBANY OVER ROBESON BAN”

LXXI. McKeon, pg. 44

LXXII. “The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson” by Susan Robeson, pg. 164

LXXIII. Duberman, pg. 342

LXXIV. New York Times, 4/21/1949, pg. 6, Robeson Assails Stettinius

LXXV. Duberman, pg. 342

LXXVI. Duberman, pg. 342

LXXVII. New York Times, 4/21/1949, Pg. 6,“HOOK, FARRELL MAP ANTI-RED UNIT PLAN”

LXXVIII. New York Times, 4/25/1949, pg. 16, “ROBESON AS SPEAKER FOR NEGROES DENIED”

LXXIX. “Jackie Robinson Testifies on Negro Loyalty”, Paramount News, 1949

LXXX. “I Never Had It Made” by Jackie Robinson, pp. 96-98