Name: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Screening and Talkback
Start: 2025-02-13T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-13T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture

$Ain\u2019t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Screening and Talkback$

Mark Black History Month with a screening of Ain’t No Back To a Merry-Go-Round. This award-winning documentary recounts the 1960 desegregation of the Glen Echo Amusement Park, which shook metropolitan Washington, forced sides, changed lives, and ignited sparks that flew out across the Civil Rights Movement for years to come. Following the screening, director and producer Ilana Trachtman will go deeper on this successful partnership between the black and Jewish communities and the importance of allyship.
🎥AIN'T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND is the award-winning film that tells the forgotten story of how those three events shook metropolitan Washington, forced sides, changed lives, and ignited sparks that flew out across the Civil Rights Movement for years to come.
Using just-discovered archival footage, and focusing on the stories of six individuals, you’ll be transported to those heady days, when private businesses could choose their customers, and the walls between Black and white were so high that friendships were unimaginable.
It offers a rare and intimate lens on one protest in the early Civil Rights Movement. Telling the story of one amusement park, one group of individuals, and one moment in time, the laser focus allows for deep understanding of the non-famous individuals whose efforts, sacrifices, and personal awakenings fueled the Civil Rights Movement.
This film is suitable for middle school and older.