| A Time for Justice | |
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| Produced by | Charles Guggenheim Dan Sturman |
Production company | Guggenheim Productions |
| Distributed by | Southern Poverty Law Center |
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Running time | 38 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Time for Justice is a 1994 American short documentary film produced by Charles Guggenheim. In 1995, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 67th Academy Awards. [1] [2]
The 38-minute film, narrated by Julian Bond and featuring John Lewis, presents a short history of the Civil Rights Movement using historical footage and spoken accounts of participants. Events recounted are the Montgomery bus boycott; school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas; demonstrations in Birmingham; and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
The film was produced by Guggenheim for the Southern Poverty Law Center. [3]
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