# Now Is The Time

'Now Is the Time' featured actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis doing in-studio readings from the passionate writings of American Negroes as cameras caught on-location illustrative and impressionistic films of Philadelphia Negroes. A unique anthology of American Negro attitudes from the earliest days of subservience to current times of heightened self-respect." Includes footage of a church service, elderly women, children playing, decayed apartment buildings, protest marches and rallies, lunch counter sit-ins, and violent encounters between protesters and police. Includes readings from from the writings of: Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lucy Smith, Claude Brown, Countee Cullen, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Naomi L. Madgett, Waring Cuney, Herbert Clark Johnson, Malcolm X, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Rita Vaughan, Mari E. Evans, Sterling A. Brown, Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael, Ernie Chambers, Dr. Nathan Wright and Rev. M.L. Wilson. Also includes comments from African-American children about race, and excerpts from gospel songs and spirituals. With: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Chronicles in music and the words of Negro poets and leaders the history of the American Negro, showing the reasons for his impatience and anger at equivocation and evasion concerning equal rights and respect for his race. Actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee narrate the presentation which includes poignant poetry by Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen and the impassioned statements of James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1967
- Runtime: 34 min
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/nowisthetime_201512)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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