Text transcribed from caption: PC-29791 LUNCHES FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHERS NEW YORK -- Interracial and interreligious -- that was the theme of a giant sandwich packaging program carried on by the National Council of Churches, which prepared 80,000 box lunches for participants in the civil rights march on Washington. Roman Catholic nuns joined Protestant and Orthodox volunteers in a 13-hour project carried out in the hall of Riverside Church in New York City. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-8E-63-W)

United Press International. (publisher)

1963

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negative : black-and-white ; 5 1/4 x 7 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Luncheons--Washington (D.C.)
Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York.
Sandwiches--New York (State)--New York.

United States.
Washington (D.C.)
New York (State)
New York.
Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.)
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29791; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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