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History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America. Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.

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Title:
Natural disaster aftermath, Haiti.
Description:
Man sitting amid collapsed structures in Haiti.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.
Topics:
Disaster relief--Haiti., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti.
Geographic subjects:
Haiti.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281917
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Carrefour George. This tiny hut in one of the mountain areas about a 5 hour horseback ride from Cotes-de-Fer provided the clinic for the medical team. Some of these have been waiting hours for a brief consultation with the doctor.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Disaster nursing--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179441
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Nurse Carol Clark gives one of 1000 immunization shots for the day in the mountain village of Gris Gris.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Disaster nursing--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179440
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Edie Gohkle, nurse, boils needles as sterilization for the next day's clinic and washes dishes at the close of a hectic clinic day in the mountains.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Disaster nursing--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179438
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Two nurses and doctor leave one mountain village for another in relief work after hurricane.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Disaster nursing--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179437
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Ricat. Many mothers with young children came to the clinics just to have the doctor check their children. Here Nurse Edie Gohlke (Lutheran) admires the twins of this proud mother.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Disaster nursing--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179433
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Up in the mountains above Cotes-de-Fer, Dr. Peterson listens to a patient's story with the aid of an interpreter.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Physician and patient--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179432
Title:
Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.
Topics:
Hurricane Flora, 1963., Disaster relief--Haiti--Sud-Est., Church work with disaster victims--Haiti--Sud-Est., Physician and patient--Haiti--Sud-Est.
Geographic subjects:
Sud-Est (Haiti)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179431
Title:
Arrest of Eugene Carson Blake, 1963.
Description:
On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310
Title:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church choir, 1963.
Description:
Choir test recordings for the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. National Radio Pulpit, recorded 21 November 1963, broadcast on NRP, January 1964. Engineer Harold Campbell.
Creator:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
National radio pulpit.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71693
Title:
March leaders confer with president.
Description:
The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:12190
Title:
Children receive care package from local church.
Description:
Children receive care package from local church, Deming, New Mexico.
Subject names:
Smallpox Eradication Program (U.S.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Migrant Ministry., Zavaleta, Genie--Archives., Zavaleta, Hector--Archives.
Topics:
Migrant laborers, families., Children of migrant laborers.
Geographic subjects:
Deming (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8824
Title:
Genie (?) with crowd of girls.
Description:
[Genie (?) with crowd of girls] New Mexico.
Subject names:
Smallpox Eradication Program (U.S.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Migrant Ministry., Zavaleta, Genie--Archives., Zavaleta, Hector--Archives.
Topics:
Migrant laborers, families., Children of migrant laborers.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8577
Title:
The Interchurch News.
Description:
The Interchurch News.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8144
Title:
Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.
Description:
Philadelphia, Pa., Convention Hall, Dec. 1-6, 1963-- 30 billboards were placed in Philadelphia by the N. W. Ayer & Son Inc. Left to right are: Rev. Arvo E. Vaurio, Rev. John W. Abbott and Kenneth W. Slifer.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8077
Title:
John F. Kennedy memorial service.
Description:
A view from the stage of the memorial service for John F. Kennedy. Bishop Baber at the platform.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Death and burial.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7804
Title:
John F. Kennedy memorial service.
Description:
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Singing City Choir participate in the memorial service for John F. Kennedy.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Death and burial.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7789
Title:
John F. Kennedy memorial service.
Description:
Over all view of the memorial service for John F. Kennedy.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Death and burial.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7719
Title:
John F. Kennedy memorial service.
Description:
Participating in the memorial service for John F. Kennedy were left to right: J. Irwin Miller; Bishop Baber and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Death and burial., Miller, J. Irwin (Joseph Irwin), 1909-2004.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7681
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake arrested.
Description:
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.
Creator:
Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7398

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