Round and Round Together
Round and Round Together
About this book
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.
*- Paul Dry Books*
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- OL Work ID
- OL16183963W
Subjects
Race relationsJuvenile literatureCivil rightsAfrican AmericansCivil rights movementsBiographyHistoryAfrican americans, civil rightsAfrican americans, juvenile literatureCivil rights movements, juvenile literatureUnited states, race relationsUnited states, history, juvenile literatureUnited states, historyblack historycarouselAmusement parksSocial aspects of Amusement parksGwynn Oak Park