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A Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement

VHS
38 minutes
E185.61 .T561 1992

"It wasn't no Civil War. Wasn't no World War. Just people in the same country, fighting each other."

A Time for Justice depicts the battle for civil rights as told by its foot soldiers. They rode where they weren't supposed to ride; walked where they weren't supposed to walk; sat where they weren't supposed to sit. And they stood their ground until they won their freedom.

"Our bodies became living witnesses to the causes of human dignity."

Produced by three-time Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim, A Time for Justice recalls the crises in Montgomery, Little Rock, Birmingham and Selma. But more importantly, it reveals the heroism of individuals who risked their lives for the cause of freedom and equality.

The film opens at the cemetery where Jimmie Lee Jackson is buried. Jackson was killed by state troopers during a voting rights demonstration in Marion, Alabama. The words of one who remembered Jackson lead us into a compelling story of a people's transcendent courage:

"Jimmie was a symbol of something ­ that guns and bullets cannot destroy ideas."

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