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00:00We're going to have one swing at a time at Glen Echo, the amusement park in Washington.
00:21This park is segregated.
00:22We don't have access to gasoline.
00:23What's your rescue race?
00:24My race?
00:25I belong to the human race.
00:30Oh, we were dying to get in there.
00:34I really wanted to ride on the carousel.
00:36Why couldn't we go and have fun like everybody else?
00:39We were some bold people.
00:43I knew that there was something better for me.
00:46We wouldn't let our kids come to Glen Echo because not everybody could come.
00:53We are Americans too.
00:54We support this country.
00:55We love this country.
00:56The Holocaust radicalized me.
00:59We fight for civil rights as much my fight as it is theirs.
01:05That was the first time I had any social contact with a white person.
01:10White people feel it would really be totally wrong morally for young white girls to be
01:14bumping hips in a swimming pool with teenage Negro boys.
01:18I was surprised because the majority of the people picketing were white.
01:22Whose picket line is this?
01:24A group of demonstrators have just marched through the gate.
01:29Got on the merry-go-round.
01:30And into a restaurant here.
01:33Then the brown shirts showed up.
01:37I would be picketing while there are these people here who blew my flag.
01:43What are you doing here, you nigger?
01:46You want to die?
01:47And the guy spit on me.
01:49Spit right in her face.
01:52She just looked straight ahead and kept on walking.
01:57Last night's group was the largest number of demonstrators.
02:00Congressman Adam Clayton Powell.
02:02Stokely's first picket line.
02:04E. Philip Randall and Roy Wilkins joined the picket line.
02:08Glen Echo gave me my baptism.
02:15It dramatically changed my life.
02:23Be sure to be at Glen Echo during the last week of the season.
02:26Glen Echo Amusement Park.
02:28One more time, gang.
02:29Glen Echo Amusement Park.