Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

BRIARCLIFF MANOR – Journeys to Change, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Briarcliff Manor will host two screenings of the award-winning film, “Ain’t No Back to a Merry Go-Round.” The film documents the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history in 1960, when five Howard University students sat on a carousel at a segregated amusement park in Maryland, their arrest made headlines. Ten 1961 Freedom Riders, including Stokely Carmichael, were incubated on the Glen Echo picket line, and the carousel arrests were challenged in the Supreme Court case. The screenings are free and open to the public with registration.