AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND is a just-released film by Ilana Trachtman that highlights the untold story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history. When five Howard University students sat on a Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined […]
"Ain't No Back to the Merry-Go-Round" is a just-released film highlighting the untold story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history.When five Howard University students sat on a Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, […]
Step inside several historic homes and see and learn about many more as we tour New Rochelle, once known as the Artists Colony! American icon Norman Rockwell; Frederic Remington of Western Art acclaim; the “Gibson Girl” creator Charles Dana Gibson who portrayed society’s new, independent woman—these talents and many more made New Rochelle their home […]
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