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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