Editing Peekskill riots (section)

===Protests afterwards===
Following the riots, more than 300 people went to Albany, New York to express their indignation to Governor [[Thomas Dewey]], who refused to meet with them, blaming communists for provoking the violence.<ref>Duberman, Martin. ''Paul Robeson'', 1989, Peekskill, p. 367.</ref> Twenty-seven plaintiffs filed a civil suit against Westchester County and two veterans' groups. The charges were dismissed three years later.{{citation needed|date = September 2013}}