Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00We're going to have one swing at a time at Glen Echo, the amusement park in Washington.

00:21This park is segregated.

00:22We don't have access to gasoline.

00:23What's your rescue race?

00:24My race?

00:25I belong to the human race.

00:30Oh, we were dying to get in there.

00:34I really wanted to ride on the carousel.

00:36Why couldn't we go and have fun like everybody else?

00:39We were some bold people.

00:43I knew that there was something better for me.

00:46We wouldn't let our kids come to Glen Echo because not everybody could come.

00:53We are Americans too.

00:54We support this country.

00:55We love this country.

00:56The Holocaust radicalized me.

00:59We fight for civil rights as much my fight as it is theirs.

01:05That was the first time I had any social contact with a white person.

01:10White people feel it would really be totally wrong morally for young white girls to be

01:14bumping hips in a swimming pool with teenage Negro boys.

01:18I was surprised because the majority of the people picketing were white.

01:22Whose picket line is this?

01:24A group of demonstrators have just marched through the gate.

01:29Got on the merry-go-round.

01:30And into a restaurant here.

01:33Then the brown shirts showed up.

01:37I would be picketing while there are these people here who blew my flag.

01:43What are you doing here, you nigger?

01:46You want to die?

01:47And the guy spit on me.

01:49Spit right in her face.

01:52She just looked straight ahead and kept on walking.

01:57Last night's group was the largest number of demonstrators.

02:00Congressman Adam Clayton Powell.

02:02Stokely's first picket line.

02:04E. Philip Randall and Roy Wilkins joined the picket line.

02:08Glen Echo gave me my baptism.

02:15It dramatically changed my life.

02:23Be sure to be at Glen Echo during the last week of the season.

02:26Glen Echo Amusement Park.

02:28One more time, gang.

02:29Glen Echo Amusement Park.