Text transcribed from caption: PC-30244 JOHN KENNEDY: RACE IS A ‘MORAL CRISIS’ The late John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, held that to assure the rights of Negroes the nation must solve a “moral crisis.” “It is as old as the Scriptures, and is as clear as the American Constitution,” he said. On June 17 he met with the nation’s religious leaders in a White House Conference on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-11E-63-W)

United Press International. (publisher)

1963
June 11, 1963

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 9 x 7 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.)
White House (Washington, D.C.)

Presidents--United States.
Race relations--United States.
Civil rights movements--United States.

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

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. PC-30244; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-30244

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