Text transcribed from caption: P-31067 176TH UNITED PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY OKLAHOMA CITY -- A Communion service opened the 176th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in Oklahoma City’s Municipal Auditorium. On hand for a full slate of business, with much emphasis on racial issues, were 841 commissioners (delegates) of the 3.3 million-member denomination’s highest governing body. Dr. Edler G. Hawkins, Negro clergyman of Bronx, N.Y., was elected moderator -- the first member of his race to become spiritual leader of the Church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CK-Ph-5E-64-NBM)

Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)

1964
May 21, 1964

still image

negatives

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

Religious News Service--Archives.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (176th : 1964 : Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977.

Congresses and conventions--Oklahoma--Oklahoma City.
Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
African American clergy.

Oklahoma
Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City (Okla.)

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31067; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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