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Title: Kenneth G. Neigh interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzM2&qrs=
Identifier (local): 85-0930_bauer_neigh_1983
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116440

Title: Fund for Freedom, 1964-1970.
Description: Materials related to a "Fund for Freedom", the special initiative for congregations to raise money to support the Council on Church and Race. Features correspondence, financial statements, reports, promotional materials, and brochures.
Creator Name(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. (author), Logan, Jay M. (author), George, Bryant, 1927-. (author), Kuhn, Maggie. (author), Johnson, Roger H. (author), Ramirez, Ruth. (author), Cox, W. K. (author), Taylor, Theophilus Mills, 1909-. (author)
Date Created: 1964, 1964-1970
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Council. Department of Interpretation and Stewardship., Wilmore, Gayraud S., McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 301.9, Box 12, Folder 15; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race Records, 1963-1971.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-3019
Identifier (local): rg301-9_b12_f15
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:177604

Title: Black Manifesto and responses, 1969.
Description: Transcript of the Black Manifesto delivered by James Forman at the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit, Michigan on April 26, 1969, and responses to it made by religious leaders, including Gayraud Wilmore and the National Committee of Black Churchman.
Creator Name(s): Forman, James, 1928-2005. (author), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-. (author), Wilmore, Gayraud S. (author), Ramage, David. (author)
Date Created: 1969
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.), Forman, James, 1928-2005., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Flemming, Arthur S. (Arthur Sherwood), 1905-1996., National Committee of Black Churchmen., McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), Wilmore, Gayraud S., Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 301.9, Box 13, Folder 5; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race Records, 1963-1971.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-3019
Identifier (local): rg301-9_b13_f5
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:177660

Title: PCUSA Special Committee on Racism, Truth and Reconciliation
Description: The Special Committee on Racism Truth and Reconciliation was created by the 222nd General Assembly (2016) with a mandate to interrogate institutional racism within the Church. In support of the committee’s work, this collection brings together records of the Presbyterian Church’s responses to the Confession of 1967, the Black Manifesto, and other passages from the long-standing struggles of Black, Brown and indigenous power movements against white supremacy. The committee presents its full report and recommendations to the 225th General Assembly (2022).
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): islandora:scrtr
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:scrtr

Title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ.
Description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech on the church's role in the Civil Rights Movement on July 6, 1965, at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ held in Chicago, Illinois, July 1-7, 1965. This speech marked the first time King used the phrase "we shall overcome."
Date Created: 1965, July 6, 1965, July 6, 1965
Name Subject(s): United Church of Christ. General Synod., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects.--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Cook--Illinois--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109A, image no. P-32827; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32827
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:143453

Title: Civil rights, protests, and social reformers
Description: History of Presbyterian and ecumenical involvement in civil rights movements, protests, and social justice issues, as well as individual social reformers and activists.
Featured image: Presbyterian peacemaking rally to freeze nuclear weapons, 1985.
Topical Subject(s): Anti-war demonstrations., Christianity and politics., Social justice--Religious aspects., Church and the world., Social reformers., Civil rights demonstrations., Race relations--Religious aspects., Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights movements., Civil rights workers.
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:protest_reform

Title: Strategy meeting for student demonstration, circa 1960's.
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960's
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Atlantic.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--United States., African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 395, Box 1, Folder 9; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. African American Synods Collection, 1873-1988.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-395
Identifier (local): ds5761
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:104616

Title: Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 2.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topical Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzM2&qrs=
Identifier (local): bauer_lewis_1983_side2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116205

Title: Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 1.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topical Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzM2&qrs=
Identifier (local): bauer_lewis_1983_side1
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:115623

Title: Fund for Freedom, 1964-1969.
Description: Materials related to a "Fund for Freedom", the special initiative for congregations to raise money to support the Council on Church and Race. Features correspondence, financial statements, reports, promotional materials, newsletters, and brochures.
Creator Name(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. (author), Lyttle, James A. (author), Wilmore, Gayraud S. (author), Logan, Jay M. (author), Thomas, Winburn Townshed, 1909-1981. (author), Calkins, Bruce. (author), Jameson, Vic. (author), McKinnis, Carole. (author), Karsch, Carl G. (author), Firth, Richard W. (author), George, Bryant, 1927-. (author), Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (author), Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (author), Anderson, Donald L. (author), Kuhn, Maggie. (author), Wooley, Woodrow. (author), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923-. (author), Mercado, Juan E. (author), Moore, Richard E. (author), Eichenberg, Henry. (author), Williams, Edward E. (author), Clark, Paul S. (author)
Date Created: 1964, 1964-1969, 1964-1969
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Council. Department of Interpretation and Stewardship., Wilmore, Gayraud S., McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-., Logan, Jay M.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 301.9, Box 12, Folder 14; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race Records, 1963-1971.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-3019
Identifier (local): rg301-9_b12_f14
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:177507

Title: Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Lewis, Dean H., 1926- (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topical Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzM2&qrs=
Identifier (local): 85-0930_bauer
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116206

Title: United Presbyterian Commission on Religion and Race.
Description: Outlines the purpose, composition, and authority of the newly formed UPCUSA Commission on Religion and Race.
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (175th : 1963 : Des Moines, Iowa), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 95, Box 15, Folder 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Eugene Carson Blake Records, 1935-1966.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-95
Identifier (local): rg95_b15_f6_commission_religion_race
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:345248

Title: Rabbi speaks for civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30958 RABBI SPEAKS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America, urges immediate passage of pending civil rights legislation at a mass interreligious convocation at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. More than 6,000 Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews attended the convocation. Other main speakers, from left to right immediately behind the rostrum, included Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington and Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the National Council of Churches’ race commission. At far right is Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, NCC race commission chairman and chief administrative officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5A-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Thompson, Kenneth. (photographer), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Christian Methodist Episcopal Church., Synagogue Council of America., O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.), Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Interreligious cooperation--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30958; 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-30958
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348437

Title: Enthusiastic interreligious crowd urges civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30959 ENTHUSIASTIC INTERRELIGIOUS CROWD URGES CIVIL RIGHTS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than 6,000 Protestants, Catholics and Jews enthusiastically applaud as Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. chief administrator and chairman of the National Council of Churches’ race commission, demands that civil rights legislation “must and will be enacted -- and the time is now.” All 535 Senators and Representatives were invited to the interreligious convocation at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and several attended. At left in the front row are the two New York Republican Senators, Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating, and sixth from left is Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.), floor manager of the civil rights bill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5A-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Thompson, Kenneth. (photographer), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Georgetown University., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Interreligious cooperation--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30959; 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-30959
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348438

Title: Lead interreligious rally.
Description: Alternate caption.
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., National Catholic Welfare Conference., Synagogue Council of America., O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Shehan, Lawrence, 1898-1984., Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Interreligious cooperation--Washington (D.C.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30951; 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-30951_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348493

Title: Students conduct vigil at memorial.
Description: Alternate caption.
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Lewis, H. Richard., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Students., Geckeler, Steve., Ekhaml, Bob., Paulist Fathers Seminary (Washington, D.C.)--Students., Jewish Institute of Religion (New York, N.Y.), Bain, Evelyn., Jewish Theological Seminary of America--Students., Lewis, Sheldon, 1941-
Topical Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Prayer--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30952; 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-30952_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348684

Title: Leaders at interreligious civil rights rally.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30951 LEADERS AT INTERRELIGIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS RALLY WASHINGTON, D. C. -- These were the leaders of the Interreligious Convocation on Civil Rights attended by some 5,000 clergy and lay people at Georgetown University in Washington, held in support of the civil rights bill in Congress. Sponsors of the convocation were the National Council of Churches, National Catholic Welfare Conference and Synagogue Council of America. Left to right are: Catholic Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington, who presided; Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chairman of the NCC’s Commission on Religion and Race and chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.; Catholic Archbishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore; and Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, vice-chairman of the NCC commission. The overflow crowd jammed both the Catholic university’s gymnasium and nearby auditorium. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-4D-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., National Catholic Welfare Conference., Synagogue Council of America., O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Shehan, Lawrence, 1898-1984., Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Interreligious cooperation--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30951; 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-30951
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348435

Title: Civil rights prayer vigil.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30952 CIVIL RIGHTS PRAYER VIGIL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish theology students stand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where, they said, they planned to continue a silent prayer vigil for civil rights until the pending legislation is made law. From left to right are Steve Geckeler of Union Theological Seminary, New York; Bob Ekhaml of Paulist Fathers Seminary in Washington, H. Richard Lewis of the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York; Evelyn Bain of New York’s Union Seminary, and Sheldon Lewis of Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-4E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Lewis, H. Richard., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Students., Geckeler, Steve., Ekhaml, Bob., Paulist Fathers Seminary (Washington, D.C.)--Students., Jewish Institute of Religion (New York, N.Y.), Bain, Evelyn., Jewish Theological Seminary of America--Students., Lewis, Sheldon, 1941-
Topical Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Prayer--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30952; 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-30952
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348436

Title: God bless - whom? :
Description: Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator Name(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Goode, Richard. (narrator), Carter, Nancy. (director)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: Alabama., North and Central America--United States--Alabama
Physical Location: TAPE 761; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: God bless - whom? [sound recording] : radio documentary on religion and race.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=146
Identifier (local): tape761_GodBlessWhom
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116487

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: The president and 'March' leaders.
Description: Alternate caption when the photo was reissued in November 1963 on the occasion of President Kennedy's death.
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.), Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Whitney M., Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Ahmann, Mathew H., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Lewis, John, 1940-2020., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Presidents--United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29807; 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-29807_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357746

Title: March leaders confer with president.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29807 MARCH LEADERS CONFER WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Strong bi-partisan support will be necessary to push civil rights legislation through Congress, President Kennedy told leaders of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drw over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, for left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; ; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union. 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.), Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Whitney M., Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Ahmann, Mathew H., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Presidents--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29807; 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-29807
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7220

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: Principals in Alabama bus boycott.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #PBLEM-18874 PRINCIPALS IN ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott here protesting segregation in city buses. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19 for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December after a Negro seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Negro riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-RAM-3C-56-NAB-PBLEM)
Creator Name(s): Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Date Created: 1956, March 1956, March 1956
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., Bennett, L. Roy., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hubbard, H.H., Nixon, Edgar Daniel.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., United States, Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PBLEM-18874; 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_PBLEM-18874
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358342

Title: Rights leaders pushed off road.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-34393 RIGHTS LEADERS PUSHED OFF ROAD HERNANDO, Miss. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Negro civil rights leaders, are pushed off the road at they resume a voters march begun by James Meredith. Later they continued their walk, marching single file along the highway’s shoulder. Mr. Meredith was short from ambush by a white man as he was marching from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, capital of Mississippi, in an effort to encourage Negro voting in the state’s primary election. Religious leaders were quick to condemn the shooting and called for greater efforts in behalf of Negro voting rights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-6B-66-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1966, June 1966, June 1966
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hernando., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hernando., Voter registration--Mississippi., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., African American clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., Police--Mississippi--Hernando.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi, Hernando., United States, Hernando (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--DeSoto--Hernando
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-34393; 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-34393
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358344

Title: Chicago march leaders.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-34662 CHICAGO MARCH LEADERS CHICAGO -- Leaders of the civil rights marches protesting housing discrimination in Chicago discuss future strategy with their followers. Albert Raby, heading the effort, announces that plans to march in suburban Cicero have been postponed. With him are other Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials -- the Rev. James Bevel (left) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-8C-66-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1966, August 1966, August 1966
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Raby, Al, 1933-1988., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects: United States., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., United States, Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-34662; 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-34662
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358347

Title: Ministers, religion professors jailed as Freedom Riders.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PF-26262 MINISTERS, RELIGION PROFESSORS JAILED AS FREEDOM RIDERS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- These “Freedom Riders” were smiling as they arrived here by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they sought service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr. David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; George B. Smith (head partially visible), Negro law student at Yale University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group; the Rev. Gaylor [Gaylord] Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, Negro theological students at Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Others arrested at the “white only” counter were four Negro integration leaders, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist church here; the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth of Birmingham; the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, an executive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Bernard S. Lee, one of nine students expelled from Alabama State College last year for trying to stage a sit-in demonstration. Another Negro leader, the Rev. Solomon S. Seay, executive secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was short in the wrist the same day, reportedly by a white man in a passing car. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-5D-61-DP)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1961, May 1961, May 1961
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Maguire, John David., Swift, David Everett, 1914-, Smith, George Bundy., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Noyce, Gaylord B., Carter, Clyde Larocque., Jones, Charles, 1937-2019.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., United States, Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PF-26262; 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_PF-26262
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358357

Title: Everett Parker.
Description: Text transcribed from notations on envelope: R3616 Rev. Everett C. Parker Director, Joint Radio Committee Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Christian churches.
Creator Name(s): National Broadcasting Company. (publisher)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Parker, Everett C., Joint Religious Radio Committee.
Topical Subject(s): Mass media--Religious aspects., Civil rights workers--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 3616; 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_3616
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359525

Title: Solidarity Day March.
Description: Washington, D.C.--Churchmen were prominent among the 50,000 who gathered in the nation's Capital on June 19 to participate in the Solidarity Day march of the Poor People's Campaign. Representatives of the Synod of Virginia of the Presbyterian Church U.S. (Southern) leave the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church where a prayer service for the Campaign was held before the rally. As a denomination, the Presbyterian, U.S. Church had rejected endorsement of Solidarity Day.
Date Created: 1968, June 19, 1968, June 19, 1968
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of Virginia., New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Poor People's Campaign., African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 37321; 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): ds3094
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7239

Title: Strike City proofs.
Description: [Strike City proofs, Job # 601].
Creator Name(s): Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Date Created: 1966, ca. 1966
Name Subject(s): Delta Ministry of Mississippi.
Topical Subject(s): African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century., Race relations--Religious aspects., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES NCC 03-0531b, Box 2; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication Records, 1925-1997.
Identifier (local): ds3154
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7382

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