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2:30 p.m. November 15

Join the North Louisiana Jewish Federation for a one-time screening of an untold Civil Rights story at RFC!

Before there was the March on Washington, there was Glen Echo - the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history. When 5 Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. But as the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, an extraordinary history-making partnership was born. This is the untold story of the Jews they marched with, Nazis they provoked, Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became. Documentary, 2024, 1h 29m, NR.

Four living protesters rescue this forgotten history, revealing the price, and the power, of heeding the impulse to activism with never-before seen footage, immersive storytelling by Emmy-award winning director Ilana Trachtman, and voiceover by noted actors Jeffrey Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Bob Balaban, Lee Grant, Peter Gallagher, Dominique Thorne, Alysia Reiner, and Tracie Thoms.

The screening will be held in Theater 1, RFC’s 124-seat capacity theater.