Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Heads together.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #61450 HEADS TOGETHER…BIRMINGHAM The “Big Three” of the Civil Rights Movement get their heads together here just before releasing their statement that accord had been reached on their grievances. L-R: Martin Luther King, Jr; Fred Shuttleworth; Ralph Abernathy 5-10-63
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Alabama--Birmingham., African American clergy--Alabama--Birmingham.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358338
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March on jail.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #50502 MARCH ON JAIL…BIRMINGHAM, Ala…Barred window of waiting paddy wagon frames demonstrators -- some singing, some praying -- as an estimated 2,000 marched on the Birmingham jail May 5 in a segregation protest. (1963).
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham., Police vehicles--Alabama--Birmingham., Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358337
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Malcolm X predicts race violence.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30722 MALCOLM X PREDICTS RACE VIOLENCE NEW YORK -- "More violence on the racial scene in 1964 than Americans have ever witnessed" was predicted in New York by Malcolm X, militant black nationalist who broke with the Black Muslim movement headed by Elijah Muhammad to form his own organization, Muslim Mosque, Inc. Though personally continuing to espouse the teachings of Muhammad, he said, the new group would be politically oriented and would seek support among the nation's non-Muslim Negroes and any others willing to follow the black nationalist banner. "White people will be shocked when they discover that the passive little Negro they had known turns out to be a roaring lion." Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-3B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., X, Malcolm, 1925-1965., Muslim Mosque, Inc.
Topics:
Black Muslims--United States., Black nationalism--United States., Muslims--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Islam.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), United States--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353873

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