

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY GO ROUND
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This is the untold story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history. When 5 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, an extraordinary history-making partnership was born. The pickets attracted Nazis, Congressman, and a press avalanche. Picketing together over the sweltering summer led to partying together, and union organizers mentored student activists. Ten 1961 Freedom Riders, including Stokely Carmichael, were incubated on the Glen Echo picket line, and the carousel arrests were challenged in the Supreme Court case.  With never-before seen footage, and immersive storytelling, four living protesters rescue this forgotten history, revealing the price, and the power, of heeding the impulse to activism.

“Plays like the here’s-what-really-happened version of John Waters’s “Hairspray” The Washington Post
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/vineyard-haven/ain’t-no-back-to-a-merry-go-round/200029646970814
- **Event Categories**: storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://mvfilmsociety.com/2026/01/aint-no-back-to-a-merry-go-round/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=vineyard+haven-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Vineyard Haven
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 79 Beach Rd, Vineyard Haven, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02568
- **lat**: 41.45242
- **long**: -70.59806
- **full address**: 79 Beach Rd, Vineyard Haven, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02568

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Martha's Vineyard Film Society (https://allevents.in/org/marthas-vineyard-film-society/338653)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 79 Beach Rd, Vineyard Haven, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02568
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Martha's Vineyard Film Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY GO ROUND ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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