The infamous Peekskill Riots, perpetrated by mobs at Paul Robeson concerts in 1949, were “long ago, so long that community and religious groups in town caused nary a stir when they put together plans for a concert to be held Friday, 60 years later. … [W]hat those long-ago events mean today, what resonance the fears and angers of 1949 have for the fears and angers of 2009, well that’s a subject as rich and complicated as the man who set the events in motion.”