Text transcribed from caption: PC-31068 RELIGIOUS GROUPS SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS PHILADELPHIA-Representatives of church groups demonstrate for racial justice at an “interreligious witness for civil rights” in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall Square. The meeting was attended by several hundred persons from about 25 cooperating religious groups. Aim of the demonstration was an early passage of the civil rights bill in Congress. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-5E-64-NAB)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1964
May 24, 1964

still image

photographs

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

Religious News Service--Archives.
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Clergy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Unitarian churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Interdenominational cooperation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
United States.
Philadelphia (Pa.)

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31068; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-31068

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