This is a chance to  meet members from several local villages. Local DC Villages are sponsoring this month's film. The title of the film is announced a week or two prior to the screening. Tickets are only $6. 

Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

May's screening is generously supported by Cleveland & Woodley Park Village. AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND 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. With never-before seen footage, four living protesters rescue this forgotten history, revealing the price, and the power, of heeding the impulse to activism.

Rated NR,  89 min, in English
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The Avalon Theatre is wheelchair accessible and provides assisted listening devices to guests with hearing and visual impairments. All films in this program will be shown with open captions.

More information at https://www.theavalon.org/programs/senior-cinema/