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

RNS-RG1_P-30969

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