A Time for Burning | movie | 1967 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Explores the attempts of the minister of the Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white con | dG1fLUh2cFZ4VlN0NDg

Transcript

00:00The problem exists because white people think they're better than black people,

00:03and they want to oppress us, and they want us to allow ourselves to be oppressed.

00:11This one lady said to me, Pastor, she said, I want them to have everything I have.

00:17I want God to bless them as much as he blesses me.

00:20But he says, Pastor, I just can't be in the same room. It just bothers me.

00:24I would see an interracial exchange of couples as something sponsored or encouraged by our social ministry committee.

00:38Me? I'm scared to death.

00:39Why?

00:40Why?

00:41I have but understood this problem two short weeks.

00:49This is the burning question and the issue that stands before this church today.

00:54This is the burning question.