Text transcribed from caption: P-31262 NEGRO ATTORNEY NAMED TO LCA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PITTSBURGH -- William S. Ellis, a New York attorney (left), became the first Negro to be elected to the Executive Council of the Lutheran Church in America. He is congratulated here during the LCA’s second biennial convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., by Dr. Theodore E. Matson, president of the denomination’s Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod. Mr. Ellis, in an address to the convention, made a plea to Lutherans to “present their bodies for the picket line” in support of the new civil rights bill.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-Pit-7B-64-NBM)
