Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...
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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Film charts lasting impact of rollercoaster Black-Jewish protest of segregated parkNEW YORK — Growing up in suburban Maryland, film director Ilana Trachtman was transfixed by the remains of a disused amusement park near her home. The Glen Echo Amusement Park had roller coaster ...
Brhan, former executive director of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, who earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State ...
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Local filmmaker on first organized interracial civil rights protestRound” tells the historic story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history, highlighting the pivotal 1960 Glen Echo Amusement Park picket. “A group of Howard students ...
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