AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND - Long Island Jewish Film Festival

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Sat, May 3 1:00 PM

Description

Long Island Jewish Film Festival
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at large at the Museum of the Moving Image

AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND
Saturday, May 3 at 1 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community living near the amusement park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born, eventually leading to the creation of the Freedom Riders. 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. (2024, 89 mins)

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