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Title:
March leaders confer with president.
Description:
The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew 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.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:12190
Title:
Pre-Inaugural Service at the National Presbyterian Church.
Description:
[Rev. Dr. Elson with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, and families at the Pre-Inaugural Service at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.]
Creator:
Rowe, Abbie, 1905-1967. (photographer)
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993., Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969--Inauguration, 1957., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Inauguration, 1957., Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8687
Title:
March in Washington, D.C.
Description:
March in Washington, D.C. with Church of Pilgrims Sign.
Creator:
Cockcroft, David. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). National Ministries Division. Justice and Compassion--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8341
Title:
Now advances someday.
Description:
[Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene Carson Blake, and others bow their heads in prayer during the March on Washington. From Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 9].
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7327
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.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of Virginia., New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
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.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7239
Title:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Description:
The March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. Man farthest from the left, front row, is Jon Regier, head of the Division of Christian Life and Mission [of the National Council of Churches of Christ], a key NCC official supporting all civil rights actions of the Council.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Regier, Jon L., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7066
Title:
J. Edgar Hoover funeral.
Description:
At Capitol door awaiting arrival of the funeral cortege of J. Edgar Hoover.
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives., Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972--Death and burial.
Topics:
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5387
Title:
March on Washington.
Description:
Large crowd around Washington Monument. [Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 6].
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5125
Title:
William P. Thompson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Description:
William P. Thompson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey at National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), about 1965.
Subject names:
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Thompson, William P., 1918-, National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Vice-Presidents--United States., Presbyterian Church--Government.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1961

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