Original sentence: The Peekskill Riots were putatively anti-communist riots (with anti-black and anti-Semitic undertones) that took place at Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York in 1949.The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by black singer Paul Robeson, who was well known for his strong pro-trade union stance on civil rights and his outspoken beliefs in international socialism, anti-lynching legislation and anti-colonialist movements.The concert, organized as a benefit for the Civil Rights Congress, was scheduled to take place on August 27 in Lakeland Acres, just north of Peekskill
Edited sentence: In the weeks leading up to the attacks, Robeson had also been accused by the American press of "compar[ing] the government of the United States to that of Hitler and Goebbels, and of recommending that black Americans never fight on behalf of the United States.Pro-fascist, anti-red, anti-black, and anti-Semitic, the mobs in question comprised between 500 and 1,000 white men, women, and children.Robeson's pro-trade-union, -civil-rights, and -socialist views, as well as his agitation for a federal antilynching law and against European colonialism, were well known.The Peekskill Riots were a pair of large-scale, bloody mobbings of concertgoers who gathered at a venue near [[Peekskill, New York], in August and September 1949, to see Paul Robeson perform.against the Soviet Union