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...trial, a "protest" against violence at Paul Robeson's August Peekskill concert, includes speeches by Miss Ray Lev, pianist who played at the original concert: William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress which sponsored the concert; and Father Clarence Duffy, American Catholic priest from the Diocese of Kilmore, Eire...
...Progressives, who scheduled their rally last night as a protest against attempts to break up Paul Robeson's open-air concert last August, will listen to actual recordings of the riot noise itself and hear Father Clarence Duffy of Kilmore, Eire, speak on his refusal to answer violence with violence...
Miss Ray Lev, pianist and former American Labor Party candidate for the New York City Council, and William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, which sponsored the Robeson concert, will also speak. Miss Lev, who was one of the performers at the Peekskill concert, and Patterson both saw the riot and will give eyewitness accounts...
...boomed. "I am back just in time to get re-elected . . . and no S.O.B. Medina is going to stop me." Newly freed Comrades Robert Thompson and Henry Winston, who came along for the ride, tossed a little more verbal kerosene on the fire; so did Party-Line Chanter Paul Robeson...
...little later, and several blocks to the north, Ben Davis beamed down on another cheering crowd from the balcony of Harlem's Theresa Hotel, with Paul Robeson at his side. Both looked mighty pleased with the way things were going...