Talk:Gwynn Oak Park

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message: One statement that is currently on the Gwynn Oak page is false. I know because I wrote the book that Wiki uses for its information on Gwynn Oak: "Round and Round Together." I had never read the Wiki page until yesterday when at the Unity Festival at the park marking the 60th Anniversary of the end of segregation there, a congressman gave a speech in which he quoted the Wiki page, saying that Sharon Langley was the first Black child to go on the park's merry-go-round.  He was sharply criticized by the next speaker, Lydia Phinney Wilkins. As is known to anyone who read my book, Lydia and her aunt Mabel Grant Young went on an undercover mission at the park on July 7, 1963, at the request of a Baltimore reporter. They had fair complexions and the ticket takers did not know they were Black. Lydia rode the carousel. They left and told the reporter who then wrote a news story about their visit to show that nothing bad happened to the park because a Black girl took a ride.  All this is explained in the book "Round and Round Together." So the correct way to describe the ride that Sharon Langley took on August 28, 1963 is to say that she was the first Black child to go on a ride at the park "on the first day the park was open to all."  That is indeed true. August 28, 1963 was the date Gwynn Oak Amusement Park end segregation, which is explained in the book "Round and Round Together: Taking a Merry-go-Round Ride into Civil Rights History." The congressman was embarrassed about having made that mistake. He claimed "I read it on Wikipedia." So today I checked Wikipedia and saw that Wiki did get that detail wrong. I promised Lydia yesterday that I would go on Wikipedia and correct that error.  I tried, but then Wiki deleted my correction!  I doubt whether theWiki moderator had time to read the pages in my book that I wrote down as a reference. I'd be glad to send along a copy of the book. We gave out dozens of free copies to people at the Festival in Baltimore yesterday. That way of describing Sharon's merry-go-round ride is described in a book she is the author of that I tried to add to the references. See page 23 of "A Ride to Remember," Abrams Books, 2020.  A lot of people know that Wiki made that Congressman  make an incorrect statement.  I hope you Wiki moderators will take time to check the references and see that the correction I made should stand. Thank you, Amy Nathan, author of "Round and Round Together" and  more than 10 other historical books. www.AmyNathanBooks.com. Amynathanbooks (talk) 19:43, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  correction to a statement on the Gwynn Oak Park page