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Title: Burned Negro churches receive aid.
Description: Christians from many parts of the country are donating funds or furnishings to assist reconstruction of 38 black Baptist churches bombed or burned in Mississippi.
Creator Name(s): Chambers, Elsie. (photographer)
Date Created: 1965, ca. May 16, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Committee of Concern (Jackson, Miss.), Thompson, Leonard., Davis, William Penn, -1903., Odle, Joe T., 1909-1980.
Topical Subject(s): Religious facilities--Destruction and pillage--Mississippi--Jackson., Baptist church buildings--Fires and fire prevention--Mississippi--Jackson., Church maintenance and repair--Mississippi--Jackson.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Jackson (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Hinds--Mississippi--Jackson
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32581; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32581
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151636

Title: Rebuilt Negro church dedicated.
Description: Rebuilt at a cost of $15,450 after being burned in the racial strife of last Summer, Zion Hill Baptist church in Summit, near McComb, Miss., was dedicated before an interracial congregation.
Creator Name(s): Chambers, Elsie. (photographer)
Date Created: 1965, May 16, 1965, May 16, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Committee of Concern (Jackson, Miss.)
Topical Subject(s): Religious facilities--Destruction and pillage--Mississippi--Summit., Baptist church buildings--Fires and fire prevention--Mississippi--Summit., Church maintenance and repair--Mississippi--Summit., Church dedication--Mississippi--Summit.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Summit., Mississippi, Summit., Mississippi, Summit., Mississippi, Summit., Jackson (Miss.), Summit (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Hinds--Mississippi--Jackson, North and Central America--United States--Pike--Mississippi--Summit
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32582; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32582
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151627

Title: Principals at Negro church dedication.
Description: Principals at the dedication of the rebuilt Zion Hill Baptist church in Summit were, from left: the Rev. W. D. Carr, Dr. William P. Davis, and the Rev. Daniel Walker.
Creator Name(s): Chambers, Elsie. (photographer)
Date Created: 1965, May 16, 1965, May 16, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Committee of Concern (Jackson, Miss.), Davis, William Penn, -1903., Carr, W. D., Walker, Daniel.
Topical Subject(s): Religious facilities--Destruction and pillage--Mississippi--Summit., Baptist church buildings--Fires and fire prevention--Mississippi--Summit., Church maintenance and repair--Mississippi--Summit., Church dedication--Mississippi--Summit.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Summit., Mississippi, Summit., Mississippi, Summit., Mississippi, Summit., Jackson (Miss.), Summit (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Hinds--Mississippi--Jackson, North and Central America--United States--Pike--Mississippi--Summit
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32583; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32583
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151368

Title: Rebuilt Negro church dedicated.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-32095 REBUILT NEGRO CHURCH DEDICATED JACKSON, Miss. -- Negro and white clergy and laymen gathered in the nearly-completed Christian Union Baptist church in north Jackson, Miss., for ceremonies dedicating the new structure. The brick building, filled to overflowing, stands on the site of a sanctuary that was destroyed by fire on July 19, 1964. The church is one of 13 damaged Negro churches in the state being assisted by the interreligious Committee of Concern and was the first to be dedicated. Seated, from left to right, are: Dr. William P. Davis, chairman of the committee; Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson; Episcopal Coadjutor Bishop J. Maury Allin of Mississippi; Dr. S. Leon Whitney, pastor of Parish Street Baptist church in Jackson and vice-president of Mississippi Baptist Seminary; Mrs. Georgia Gray, church clerk, and the Rev. E.D. Hogan, pastor of the rebuilt church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MBNS-JM-1E-65-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Mississippi Baptist Convention Board. (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, January 1965, January 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Christian Union Baptist Church (Jackson, Miss.), Committee of Concern (Jackson, Miss.), Davis, William Penn, 1903-, Nussbaum, Perry E. (Perry Edward), 1908-1987., Allin, John Maury., Whitney, S. Leon., Gray, Georgia., Hogan, E.D.
Topical Subject(s): Clergy--Mississippi--Jackson., African American churches--Mississippi--Jackson., African American clergy--Mississippi--Jackson., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Mississippi--Jackson., Church dedication--Mississippi--Jackson.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Jackson (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Hinds--Jackson
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-32095; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32095
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355905

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