Text transcribed from caption: P-30786 BAPTISTS ASKED TO SUPPORT RIGHTS BILL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Southern Baptist leaders hear President Johnson ask the support of denominational leaders for his civil rights program. Speaking in the Rose Garden outside his White House office, the chief executive said that “no group of Christians has a greater responsibility in civil rights than Southern Baptists.” Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, he said, “are part of the power structure in many communities of our land,” and he called for the clergy’s aid in securing Congressional passage of rights legislation. More than 150 clergymen and lay leaders of a SBC seminar on Christian leadership heard Mr. Johnson’s appeal. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-WN-3D-64-2)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1964
March 25, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 6 1/2 x 8 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Southern Baptist Convention.
White House (Washington, D.C.)

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Civil rights movements--United States.
Presidents--United States.
Civil rights--United States.
Civil rights movements--Southern States.

United States.
Southern States.
White House Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)
North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-30786; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_P-30786

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