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Matthew Schuerman

Matthew Schuerman

Matthew Schuerman is an award-winning print and radio journalist and the author of Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

A grand jury tasked with investigating the riots argued that the violence outside Peekskill “was basically neither antisemitic nor anti-Negro in character.”

The Peekskill Riots Revealed the Racism and Antisemitism Hidden Beneath the Surface of the Anti-Communist Movement

In the summer of 1949, World War II veterans protested a pair of concerts held by Paul Robeson, a Black singer and civil rights activist who expressed support for communist causes