Editing Peekskill riots (section)

===Aftermath===
The aftermath of the concert, however, was far from peaceful. After some violence to south-going buses near the intersection of Locust Avenue and Hillside Avenue,<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/05/86783084.pdf 48 Hurt In Clashes at Robeson Rally]</ref> Hillside Avenue having since been renamed Oregon Road,<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=64829 Hillside Cemetery Info]</ref> concertgoers were diverted to head northward to Oregon Corners and forced to run a gauntlet miles long of veterans and their families, who threw rocks through windshields of the cars and buses. Much of the violence was also caused by anti-Communist members of local [[Veterans of Foreign Wars]] and [[American Legion]] chapters.<ref name="Robeson, Susan, p. 181">Robeson, Susan. ''Paul Robeson:The whole World in His Hands'' Chapter 5, The Politics of Persecution, p. 181</ref> Standing off the angry mob of rioters chanting "go on back to Russia, you niggers" and "white niggers", some of the concertgoers and [[trade union|union]] members, along with writer [[Howard Fast]] and others assembled a non-violent line of resistance, locked arms, and sang the song "We Shall Not Be Moved." Some people were reportedly dragged from their vehicles and beaten. Over 140 people were injured and numerous vehicles were severely damaged as police stood by.<ref>[http://bravenation.com/pete_seeger_majora_carter.php Seeger, Pete. Brave Nation video; Police inaction, at 10:00 minutes in.]</ref> {{coord|41|19|36.75|N|73|52|54.52|W|region:US}}

;Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie
One car carried [[Woody Guthrie]], [[Lee Hays]], [[Pete Seeger]], Seeger's wife [[Toshi Seeger|Toshi]], and his infant children. Guthrie pinned a shirt to the inside of the window to stop it shattering. "Wouldn't you know it, Woody pinned up a red shirt," Hays was to remember.<ref>[http://www.bencourtney.com/hays/ Courtney, Steve; So Long to Lee Hays.] ''[[North County News]]'', 2–8 September 1981.</ref> Seeger used some of the thrown rocks to build the chimney of his cabin in the [[Fishkill (town), New York|Town of Fishkill]], New York, to stand as a reminder of the incident.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E6D61F39F930A25755C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all To Pete Seeger, It's Still the Song of the River.] Reisler, Jim. ''New York Times'', 13 June 1999.</ref>

;Eugene Bullard
[[Eugene Bullard]], the first black combat pilot and decorated World War I veteran, was knocked to the ground and beaten by the mob, which included white members of state and local law enforcement. The beating was captured on film and can be seen in the 1970s documentary ''[[The Tallest Tree in Our Forest]]'' and the [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning, [[Sidney Poitier]]-narrated documentary ''[[Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist]]''. Despite recorded evidence of the beating, no one was prosecuted for the assault. Graphic photos of Eugene Bullard being beaten by two policemen, a state trooper and concert-goer, were published in ''The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson'', by [[Susan Robeson]].<ref>Robeson, Susan. ''Paul Robeson:The whole World in His Hands'' Chapter 5, The Politics of Persecution, pp. 182–183</ref>