Marie always loved amusement parks, but the one near where she lived in Indianapolis as a child in the 1950s was segregated. There was only one day a year when Black children could go. Her father refused to take her. If his daughter could not go every day, then he would never spend his money there. He drove her to Cincinnati to the closest unsegregated amusement park instead.
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