Honoring Courage, Fostering Alliance: A Community Initiative 

Pre-Film: Community Action Exchange (2:30 - 3:00)
Film Screening: Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (3:00)

This documentary highlights the 1960 integration of Glen Echo Amusement Park in Maryland, a story of courageous interfaith activism that helped move the civil rights movement forward.

In the spirit of that collaboration, we’ll begin the afternoon with a Community Action Exchange. Join us early to make meaningful connections and explore shared values.

Date: Sunday, November 15th 

Location: Robinson Film Center, 617 Texas Street

Register at this page: https://jewishnla.regfox.com/aint-no-back

Before there was the March on Washington, there was Glen Echo.

Five Black students rode a segregated carousel in 1960, igniting one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history. AIN'T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND is the untold story of the Jews they marched with, Nazis they provoked, Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became. (89 minutes). View the trailer here. 

Convened by the North Louisiana Jewish Federation  in partnership with University of First Presbyterian. Made possible through the generous support of The Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair, LSUS