Baltimore County residents will celebrate the 50th anniversary of desegregation at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park.
From 1-7 p.m. Sunday at 5900 Gwynn Oak Ave. in Woodlawn, there will be music, food and activities, and Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz will lead a ceremony to dedicate an historical marker.
The marker will be set at the site of protests in 1963, held in favor of desegregation, and against the park's "whites only" admission policy.
Protestors included clergy from Pikesville, including rabbis from Chizuk Amuno Congregation and Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, according to an article in The Baltimore Sun in 1998.
Robert Watts, their counsel, said Gwynn Oak was a defining moment in civil rights in Baltimore, according to the article. "In time, all of the restaurants, the movies, the parks, everything opened up to blacks."
View a YouTube video of the now-uninhabited park.
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