"A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story"
by Sharon Langley and Amy Nathan (Authors) and Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
A Ride to Remember tells how a community came together—both Black and White—to make a change. When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed entry. This book reveals how in the summer of 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Co-author Sharon Langley was the first African American child to ride the carousel. This was on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Langley’s ride to remember demonstrated the possibilities of King’s dream.
Read by Ashley De La Rosa, who is Eliza Schuyler Hamilton in the North American Tour of Hamilton.
Published in 2020 by Abrams Books for Young Readers.
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