A Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
DVD: Nonfiction
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Learning for Justice, United States
Duration
38 minutes
Description
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.
Directed by four-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, Ala. 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."
Directed by four-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, Ala. 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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