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In conversation with Ilana Trachtman, director of ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’
In 1963, the March on Washington immediately became one of the most important moments in American Civil Rights history – a ...
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Philly director's documentary on 1960 fight to desegregate amusement park has two local screenings this month
Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...
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In this civil rights protest, Jews both fought and defended segregation
At first glance, the documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round seems like a familiar story of Black-Jewish allyship during protests of the civil rights era. But the narrative becomes more ...
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Local filmmaker on first organized interracial civil rights protest
Round” tells the historic story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history, highlighting the ...
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Black and Jewish Civil Rights Alliance Recalled in ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’
Glen Echo Amusement Park was the wholesome, beloved playground of White metropolitan Washington, DC. Every summer, tens of ...
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Brhan, former executive director of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, who earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State ...