Free Film and Discussion at Independent Picture House: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round on Jan. 19 – Charlotte On The Cheap

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born.

Independent Picture House, 4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte, North Carolina, is presenting a free screening of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round on Monday, January 19, 2026, at 7:10 p.m., followed by a discussion. Follow the above link to reserve your tickets.

The post-film discussion is with panelists Dr. Rodney Sadler, Professor and Director of the Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation at Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Rabbi Judith Schindler, the Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies and founding director of the Greenspon Holocaust and Social Education Center at Queens University of Charlotte.

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