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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 aspectsURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310
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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
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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
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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
