A Young Black Girl Was the First to Desegregate a Maryland Carousel in the 1960s. Now, the Historic Merry-Go-Round Will Entertain Visitors on the National Mall The ride from Gwynn Oak Amusement Park has been out of commission for renovations since 2023. It opens to the public on April 24 Charles Langley guides his 11-month-old daughter, Sharon, onto the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park carousel on August 28, 1963 Baltimore Sun / Courtesy of Amy Nathan from page 2 of her book Round and Round Together: Taking a Merry-Go-Round Ride into the Civil Rights Movement, Paul Dry Books, 2011 On August 28, 1963, a young Black couple in Baltimore had to decide whether to travel about 45 miles south to attend the March on Washington , along with more than 250,000 other Americans devoted to civil rights and racial equality. The gathering is now often remembered as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “ I Have a Dream ” speech, one of the most significant orations in American history.…