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Philly director's documentary on 1960 fight to desegregate amusement park has two local screenings this month
Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...
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Brhan, former executive director of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, who earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State ...
Take a spin on the carousel of history in 'Aint' No Back to a Merry-Go-Round'
Trachtman’s documentary recounts the relatively unknown history of the 1960 protests at Glen Echo ... Park, the stories of ...
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Maltz Museum Screens Film About Interracial Civil Rights Protest
The Black students were joined by white, mostly Jewish neighbors, the first interracial civil rights protest in the country.
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Film charts lasting impact of rollercoaster Black-Jewish protest of segregated park
The Glen Echo Amusement Park had roller coaster tracks ... five Black Howard University students were arrested for sitting on the park’s carousel, drawing support from a nearby, mainly Jewish ...
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Black and Jewish Civil Rights Alliance Recalled in ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’
Glen Echo Amusement Park was the wholesome, beloved playground of White metropolitan Washington, DC. Every summer, tens of ...