Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
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Jan 15, 12:15 AM PST - Jan 20, 12:15 AM PST
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$10.00 USD per person
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Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round - MLK Day Special Screening
*Please note you have 48 hours to watch the film from the time of ticket purchase. We cannot provide refunds if the 48-hour window closes before watching.*
The Zoom link for Monday's Q&A will be shown during your on-demand screening.
Event Participants
Martin Schain
Film Subject
Janet Lewis
Film Subject
Ilana Trachtman
Filmmaker
About the film
Five Howard students sat down on the gilded horses of whites-only carousel the summer of 1960. When the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students en masse and set up picket lines, an unprecedented collaboration was born.
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.
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round includes voiceover by noted actors Jeffrey Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Bob Balaban, Lee Grant, Peter Gallagher, Dominique Thorne, Alysia Reiner and Tracie Thoms.
Genre
Documentary
Released
2024
Director
Ilana Trachtman
Producer
Ilana Trachtman
Executive Producer
Rick D'Avino, Barbara Dobkin, Pamela Murphy, Jeffrey Z. Slavin