Round and Round Together

250-page paperback / 6" x 8" / ISBN 978-1-58988-071-9 / Publication Date: December 2011 "A snapshot of the civil-rights movement in one city provides insight into the important role of individual communities as change moved through the country . . . a case study of how citizens of one city both precipitated and responded to the whirlwind of social change around them."—Kirkus Reviews On August 28, 1963—the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech—segregation ended finally at Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, after nearly a decade of bitter protests. Eleven-month-old Sharon Langley was the first African American child to go on a ride there that day, taking a spin on the park's merry-go-round, which since 1981 has been located on the National Mall in front of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Round and Round Together weaves the story of the struggle to integrate that Baltimore amusement park into the story of the civil rights movement as a whole. Ro