Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
Director: Ilana Trachtman Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 2024
When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born.
*Join us on Monday, January 19, following the 7:10 PM screening, for a post-film discussion with panelists Dr. Rodney Sadler, Professor and Director of the Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation at Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Rabbi Judith Schindler, the Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies and founding director of the Greenspon Holocaust and Social Education Center at Queens University of Charlotte.