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)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1964
April 28, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 5 1/2 x 9 inches

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-

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.

Washington (D.C.)
United States.
North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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