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Title: Large NCC delegation marches in Washington.
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (author)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Williams, John Wesley., National Baptist Convention of America--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Picketing--Washington (D.C.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29808; 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-29808_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357965

Title: Large NCC delegation marches in Washington.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29808 LARGE NCC DELEGATION MARCHES IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One of the large Protestant contingents in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom moved under the banner of the National Council of Churches. The group was led by Dr. Robert W. Spike of New York, at left, executive director of the NCC’s Commission on Religion and Race, which played a key role in organizing the demonstration and stimulating participation by churchmen and women. With Dr. Spike is the Rev. John W. Williams of Kansas City, Mo., a leader of the National Baptist Convention of American and a vice president-at-large of the NCC. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Williams, John Wesley., National Baptist Convention of America--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Picketing--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29808; 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-29808
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358096

Title: Religious leaders greet woman in famed 'bus' case.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29797 RELIGIOUS LEADERS GREET WOMAN IN FAMED ‘BUS’ CASE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Three religious leaders participating in the March on Washington, greet a Negro woman whose arrest made headlines in 1955. Mrs. Rosa Parks is shown with, left to right, Father John F. Cronin of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; and Rabbi Joachin Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. In 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested when she refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give her seat to a white person. Her case was one of several that aroused the nation, helped weld Negroes and white in campaigns that culminated in the March on Washington. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-WN-8E-63-W)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., American Jewish Congress., Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., National Catholic Welfare Conference. Social Action Department., Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Rabbis--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29797; 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_PC-29797
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7253

Title: Dr. Martin Luther King addresses Washington marchers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29812 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ADDRESSES WASHINGTON MARCHERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A stirring climax to ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was reached when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stepped to the rostrum and called on the nation to end racial discrimination “now.” The Baptist minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was widely hailed as the “civil rights and religious leader” of the event. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-9A-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Speeches, addresses, etc., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), African American clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States, Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29812; 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-29812
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358341

Title: Lincoln watches over March on Washington.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29805 LINCOLN WATCHES OVER MARCH ON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The spirit of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, was felt throughout the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. More than 200,000 demonstrated for civil rights in the nation’s capital, marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, where a program highlighting demands for human equality was held. Beneath the famed statue of Lincoln here are, at left, the Rev. John W. Williams, a leader of the National Baptist Convention of America, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord of Washington, D.C. Both are vice presidents-at-large of the National Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Statues., Williams, John W., National Baptist Convention of America--Clergy., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Lord, John Wesley, 1903-, Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29805; 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-29805
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358095

Title: Father LaFarge takes part in Washington march.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29801 FATHER LAFARGE TAKES PART IN WASHINGTON MARCH WASHINGTON, D.C. -- America’s top Catholic proponent of equal rights for all citizens, Father John LaFarge, S.J., of New York, was among the many prominent religious personages taking part in the momentous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Father LaFarge, a founder of the Catholic Interracial Council movement and an associate editor of the national Catholic weekly magazine, America, chats before the Lincoln Memorial with a leading Negro churchman, African Methodist Episcopal Bishop George W. Baber of Philadelphia. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Jesuits., Catholic Church--Clergy., LaFarge, John, 1880-1963., Catholic Interracial Council (New York, N.Y.), African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops., Baber, George Wilbur.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Editors--Washington (D.C.), Periodical editors--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29801; 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_PC-29801
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358121

Title: Alabama clergymen confer with president.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29929 ALABAMA CLERGYMEN CONFER WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Six Alabama clergymen who conferred with President Kennedy on the racial strife in Birmingham are shown as they arrived at the White House. Left to right, they are: Father Joseph C. Allen of the Mobile-Birmingham Catholic diocese; The Rev. Earl Stallings, pastor of First Baptist church, Birmingham; Rabbi Milton L. Grafman of Temple Emanu-el, Birmingham; Bishop Coadjutor George M. Murray of the Alabama Protestant Episcopal diocese; Methodist Bishop Nolan B. Harmon, whose jurisdiction includes the North Alabama Conference; and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Durick of the Mobile-Birmingham Catholic diocese. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-Wn-9D-63-W)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, September 23, 1963, September 23, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Allen, Joseph C., Catholic Church--Clergy., Stallings, Earl., Grafman, Milton L., 1907-1995., Murray, George M., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Harmon, Nolan B. (Nolan Bailey), 1892-, Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Durick, Joseph A. (Joseph Aloysius), 1914-1994., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), African American clergy--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Rabbis--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Alabama., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Alabama., Washington (D.C.), Alabama, North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29929; 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_PC-29929
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358132

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