Text transcribed from caption: PC-29801 FATHER LAFARGE TAKES PART IN WASHINGTON MARCH WASHINGTON, D.C. -- America’s top Catholic proponent of equal rights for all citizens, Father John LaFarge, S.J., of New York, was among the many prominent religious personages taking part in the momentous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Father LaFarge, a founder of the Catholic Interracial Council movement and an associate editor of the national Catholic weekly magazine, America, chats before the Lincoln Memorial with a leading Negro churchman, African Methodist Episcopal Bishop George W. Baber of Philadelphia. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)

Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)

1963
August 28, 1963

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photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Jesuits.
Catholic Church--Clergy.
LaFarge, John, 1880-1963.
Catholic Interracial Council (New York, N.Y.)
African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops.
Baber, George Wilbur.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Clergy--Washington (D.C.)
Bishops--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Editors--Washington (D.C.)
Periodical editors--Washington (D.C.)
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

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

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