Text transcribed from caption: P-31190 NEGROES ATTEND ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Five Negroes leave Trinity Episcopal church in racial-strife torn St. Augustine, Fla., after successfully integrating services. Though vestrymen at the church opposed allowing the Negroes to enter, clergymen insisted that they be admitted. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-SA-6D-64-NBM)

United Press International. (publisher)

1964
June 21, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Trinity Episcopal Church (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Episcopal Church--Clergy.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Civil rights movements--United States.
Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

United States.
Florida
Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine (Fla.)

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31190; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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