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A time for burning

Bill Jersey captures an all-white Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska at the time of the awakening of the Civil rights movement. Pastor Youngdahl wants to reach out to fellow Black Lutheransand treat all people as equals. Tensions threaten to tear the church apart as they attempt to desegregate. Considered a classic example of cinema verite for its time.

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  • "Bill Jersey captures an all-white Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska at the time of the awakening of the Civil rights movement. Pastor Youngdahl wants to reach out to fellow Black Lutheransand treat all people as equals. Tensions threaten to tear the church apart as they attempt to desegregate. Considered a classic example of cinema verite for its time."@en
  • "Records the developments over a period of several weeks by candid camera and microphones of the Rev. William Youngdahl's integration program at the Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska which split the church and forced his resignation. The viewpoints of the Church Council, ministers, members of both black and white churches point up the failure of church leaders and membership to see the urgency of improving race relations now and to accept their responsibility as a Christian body."
  • "A study of racial conflicts and understanding as portrayed in Omaha, Neb., when the pastor of an all-white Augustana Lutheran Church took an initial step toward desegregation."
  • "A study of racial conflicts and understanding as portrayed in Omaha, Neb., when the pastor of the all-white Augustana Lutheran Church took an initial step toward desegregation."@en
  • "A study of racial conflicts and understanding as portrayed in Omaha, Nebraska, when the pastor of the all-white Augustana Lutheran Church took a initial step toward desegregation."
  • ""Originally rejected by the three major networks for being too controversial, this classic cinéma vérité film...captures an all-white Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska as their eager, but earnest pastor tries to get the congregation to reach out to their fellow black Lutherans...As tensions threaten to tear apart the church, the film illustrates the anguish and awakenings of the civil rights era through the words and actions of everyday people." -- Container."
  • "Explores white middle class Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, when in 1966 the congregation and pastor struggled to reach our to the "Negroes" in their city."@en
  • "A cinema verite study of the struggle that developed when the pastor of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, suggested that members of his all-white congregation visit members of nearby black churches to improve race relations. From the NET Journal series."

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  • "Video"@en
  • "Interviews"
  • "Film"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Religious works"@en
  • "National Film Registry"
  • "Cinema verite"@en
  • "Documentary films"

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  • "A Time for burning"
  • "A time for burning"
  • "A time for burning"@en

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