2nd October 2019

7.30pm

William Morris Community Centre, 6 – 8 Greenleaf Road, Walthamstow, E17 6QQ

Book Launch – Hold the Line: Echoes of the Peekskill Riots

Speaker: Russ Chandler

This is the true story of a pair of riots, of two violent assaults on the organised working class that happened around the little town of Peekskill in New York State in late summer 1949.

When a concert for The Civil Rights Congress was attacked and smashed by a mob, the workers of New York responded by re-staging the event under their own control. The response to this act of defiance was a second mass assault, one that was pre-planned and saw the rioters, the police and the local media working together to unleash a brutal and bloody vengeance on the concertgoers.

Russ presents this fascinating story which has been recently published as a book. For full details of the book click here.