Aint No Back to a Merry Go Round

Pre-film special programming included
To support the five Howard students arrested for sitting on the gilded horses of a whites-only carousel the summer of 1960, the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park – many of them Jewish – joined protesting Black students and set up picket lines, creating an unprecedented collaboration. The pickets attracted Nazis, congressmen, and a press avalanche. Picketing together led to partying together and union organizers mentored student activists, ultimately producing ten 1961 Freedom Riders, including Stokely Carmichael, and a Supreme Court case. With never-before-seen footage, and immersive storytelling by Emmy-award winning director Ilana Trachtman, four living protesters rescue this untold story, revealing the price, and the power, of heeding the impulse to activism… Read More >

To support the five Howard students arrested for sitting on the gilded horses of a whites-only carousel the summer of 1960, the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park – many of them Jewish – joined protesting Black students and set up picket lines, creating an unprecedented collaboration. The pickets attracted Nazis, congressmen, and a press avalanche. Picketing together led to partying together and union organizers mentored student activists, ultimately producing ten 1961 Freedom Riders, including Stokely Carmichael, and a Supreme Court case. With never-before-seen footage, and immersive storytelling by Emmy-award winning director Ilana Trachtman, four living protesters rescue this untold story, revealing the price, and the power, of heeding the impulse to activism… Read More >