Charred cross symbolizes racial protest.
Text transcribed from caption: P-30969 CHARRED CROSS SYMBOLIZES RACIAL PROTEST PITTSBURGH -- More than 1,000 Methodists knelt, linked hands and sang “We Shall Overcome” as a charred cross -- burned by the Ku Klux Klan on the campus of predominantly Negro Tougaloo Southern Christian College near Jackson, Miss. -- is carried past the Pittsburgh Civic Arena where the denomination held its Quadrennial General Conference. The demonstration, against segregation in general as well as within the Methodist Church -- started at midnight with a prayer vigil and continued until Conference sessions were underway. The cross is carried by Austin Moore of Chicago, a student at the Mississippi college. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5B-64-NBM)
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
1964 May 2, 1964
still image
photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 6 x 9 1/4 inches
Religious News Service--Archives. Tougaloo College--Students. Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference. Moore, Austin C. Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity. Civil rights movements--United States. Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh. African American college students--Illinois--Chicago. Historically Black colleges and universities--Mississippi--Jackson. Universities and colleges--Mississippi--Jackson. College students--Illinois--Chicago.
United States. Pennsylvania Pittsburgh. Illinois Chicago. Mississippi Jackson. Pittsburgh (Pa.) Jackson (Miss.) North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Allegheny--Pittsburgh
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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.
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RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-30969; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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