Join us as Ilana introduces us to a few of the remarkable, “ordinary” individuals who stood up to injustice the summer of 1960, encountering the “other” for the very first time and also discovering the impulse to activism inside themselves. This unknown story and its ramifications is the subject of Emmy Award winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman’s documentary-in-progress, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round. Never before had a white community collaborated with a Black student group, and never before had the American Nazi Party counter-protested publicly. This sit-in on the carousel set off nine weeks pickets and arrests, most remarkable because the Howard students were immediately joined by a neighboring white community of union organizers and progressive civil servants. But the park was whites only, and the Black students were arrested. Since the turn of the century, Glen Echo Amusement Park had been the DC metro area’s premiere recreation destination, it’s advertising jingle the soundtrack to summer. In 1960, three years before the March on Washington, a group of radicalized Howard University students climbed aboard the backs of gilded horsed on Glen Echo Amusement Park’s Dentzel carousel.
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Check out the series below!Ĭheck out a behind-the-scenes tour and history of the carousel with National Park Service Ranger Kevin Patti: Throughout 2021, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Dentzel Carousel at Glen Echo Park, Montgomery History partnered with the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture to help present a four-part lecture series surrounding the story of this unique piece of local history. Presented with the Glen-Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Dentzel Carousel 100th Anniversary Lecture Series