Text transcribed from caption: PROTESTANT GROUPS UNITE TO SERVE COMMUNITY #2070 BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Since February, 1944, a group of Protestant denominations have banded together here to work with the New York Mission Society in the administration and financing of a united, interracial religious and social service effort in the Navy Yard-Fort Greene area. Cooperating bodies have been the Brooklyn Council for Social Planning, the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation, the New York City Mission Society, and Protestant Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist groups. Focal point of the work is the City Park Chapel. Here the pastor, Rev. Everitt Sheldon, is shown refereeing a boxing match between a Negro and white boy while their playmates give them verbal and visual advice. (one of a series) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BY-NY-MES-3C-6-O-I)

Haller, Ben, 1919- (photographer)

1946

still image

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negative : black-and-white ; 4 x 4 3/4 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
New York Missionary Society.
Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation.
New York City Mission Society.
Sheldon, Everitt.

Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York.
Church work with youth--New York (State)--New York.
Home missions--New York (State)--New York.
Clergy--New York (State)--New York.
Boxing--New York (State)--New York.
Sports for children--New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)
New York.
Brooklyn (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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