Round and Round Together
Taking a Merry Go Round Ride Into the Civil Rights Movement
by Amy Nathan
On August 28, 1963—the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech—segregation ended finally at Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, after nearly a decade of bitter protests. Eleven-month-old Sharon Langley was the first African American child to go on a ride there that day, taking a spin on the park's merry-go-round, which since 1981 has been located on the National Mall in front of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Round and Round Together weaves the story of the struggle to integrate that Baltimore amusement park into the story of the civil rights movement as a whole.
Round and Round Together is illustrated with archival photos from newspapers and other sources, as well as personal photos from family albums of individuals interviewed for the book. There is a timeline of major Civil Rights events.
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Race relations, Juvenile literature, Civil rights, African Americans, Civil rights movements, Biography, History, African americans, civil rights, African americans, juvenile literature, Civil rights movements, juvenile literature, United states, race relations, United states, history, juvenile literature, United states, history, black history, carousel, Amusement parks, Social aspects of Amusement parks, Gwynn Oak Park, Segregation, Desegregation, Equality, African American History, Smithsonian Institution, MLK, I have a dream (King, Martin Luther, Jr.), I have a dream, protest, Amusement park history, ride history, Amusement ride history, carousel history, Allan Herschell CompanyPlaces
Maryland, Gwynn Oak Park (Woodlawn, Md.), Gwynn Oak (Woodlawn, Md.), National Mall (Washington DC), Washington (D.C.), Baltimore (Md.), Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)Times
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Round and Round Together: Taking a Merry Go Round Ride Into the Civil Rights Movement
2011, Paul Dry Books
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