Text transcribed from caption: PC-31963 NORTHERN STUDENTS REBUILD BURNED MISSISSIPPI CHURCH RIPLEY, Miss. -- A group of “Carpenters for Christmas” -- students from five colleges in Northern states -- lay the foundation for reconstruction of the Antioch Baptist church, a Negro sanctuary burned to the ground at Ripley, Miss., after a civil rights meeting was held there. The young builders, mostly from Oberlin (O.) College but also from Northwestern University, the University of Massachusetts, Yankton (S.D.) College and Washington University in Missouri, gave their two-week Christmas holidays to the project. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12D-64-NBM)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1964
December 21, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 6 3/4 x 8 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Ripley, Miss.)
Oberlin College--Students.
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students.
University of Massachusetts (System)--Students.
Yankton College--Students.
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Students.

College students--Mississippi--Ripley.
African American churches--Mississippi--Ripley.
Civil rights movements--United States.
Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--Ripley.
Arson--Mississippi--Ripley.
Church buildings--Reconstruction--Mississippi--Ripley.
Voluntarism--Mississippi--Ripley.

Mississippi
Ripley.
United States.
Ripley (Miss.)
North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Tippah--Ripley

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