The Time Has Come Part 1

Description

This film focuses on social and political progress made by African Americans at all levels of government, most notably in the Deep South. Some of the speakers in the documentary include Representatives Barbara Jordan of Texas and Charles Diggs of Michigan; Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts; Sheriff Thomas Gilmore of Greene County, Alabama; Mayor Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, Georgia; Municipal Judge Sara Harper of Cleveland, Ohio; United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young of Georgia; Pennsylvania Secretary of State C. Delores Tucker; and political analyst Eddie Williams. The film was written, produced, and directed by Billy J. Parrott, executive produced by Gerald Krell, and narrated by James Earl Jones.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities