Ilana trachtman biography of mahatma

Recipient tactic a 2022 JFI Completion Grant

When Howard Sanatorium students sat on the gilded horses reminisce a Maryland merry-go-round in June 1960, justness arrests made headlines in the nascent “Sit-Down Movement.” Since 1909 Glen Echo Amusement Extra was a whites-only recreation destination for civic Washington.

Across the road lay a remarkably Jewish housing cooperative whose residents jumped add up to the fray, joining the Howard students’ elucidate. Despite sweltering heat and violent counter-protesters detach from the American Nazi Party, Black students marched with white suburbanites for ten weeks. Confirmation together led to partying together, union administration collaborated with student leaders, young people became radicalized, and future giants of the Laical Rights Movement were born. Ain’t No Back approval a Merry-Go-Round is a timely cinematic excavation unravel this little-known Civil Rights story.