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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 ...
Atlanta Voice8d
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival to premiere “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round” documenting desegregation of D.C. amusement park
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will kick off with the documentary "Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round," documenting the fight to ...
The Forward22d
In this civil rights protest, Jews both fought and defended segregation
The documentary focuses on the 1960 alliance between Howard University students and Jewish community members fighting for the integration of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in suburban Maryland.
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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 ...
CoolCleveland3d
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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Celebrate Black History Month in Cincinnati at these local events
This week: In 1952, two years before Brown vs Board of Education, Black families in the Village of Glendale marched in ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer15d
Celebrate Black History Month in Cincinnati at these local events
This week: In 1952, two years before Brown vs Board of Education, Black families in the Village of Glendale marched in protest of the segregation ... at "idyllic" Glen Echo Amusement Park: Howard ...