{"id":14322,"date":"2025-02-12T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=14322"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:38:38","slug":"aint-no-back-to-a-merry-go-round-an-untold-civil-rights-story","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/events\/aint-no-back-to-a-merry-go-round-an-untold-civil-rights-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round: An Untold Civil Rights Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>In 1960 Maryland, Black (from Howard University) and Jewish protesters marched together for weeks against a whites-only amusement park, despite vicious counter-protests from the American Nazi Party. A harbinger of the nascent Sit-Down movement, the protests saw the births of some future civil-rights giants. This film uses recently unearthed footage to tell this little-known civil rights story.<\/h4>\n<h4>$10 ahead, $15 at door.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.square.site\/buy\/YHCZ4DRLA6XYKEVBHYICBECR\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14170 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmblc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/button_get-your-tickets-here-300x57.png?resize=300%2C57&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/button_get-your-tickets-here.png?resize=300%2C57&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/button_get-your-tickets-here.png?w=387&amp;ssl=1 387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960 Maryland, Black (from Howard University) and Jewish protesters marched together for weeks against a whites-only amusement park, despite vicious counter-protests from the American Nazi Party. A harbinger of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[2041,1968,247,2040,248,2039],"mec_category":[984,1969],"class_list":["post-14322","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1960s","tag-civil-rights","tag-film","tag-movements","tag-movie","tag-protests","mec_category-black-history-month","mec_category-civic-engagement"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}