Presbyterian General Assemblies

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History of Presbyterian General Assemblies--annual and now biennial meetings to review the work of the denomination and resolve controversies within the church. Featured image: Rev. Joan Salmon Campbell at the 202nd General Assembly, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1990.

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Title:
Moderator Howard Rice at the 191st General Assembly.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Rev. Howard Rice, Moderator, & wife.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Moderator (1979-1980 : Rice), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (191st : 1979 : Kansas City, Mo.), Rice, Howard L., Jr., Rice, Nancy.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Kansas City (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286584
Title:
Background Statement and Resolution on Racially Motivated Violence Against Asians in America.
Description:
Adopted by the 197th General Assembly after the rise in racially motivated violence against Asians in the United States.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (197th : 1985 : Indianapolis, Ind.)
Topics:
Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Racism against Asians--United States., Hate crimes--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286253
Title:
Presbyterian General Assembly U.S.A., St. Louis, MO, May 1900.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (112th : 1900 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Louis (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286123
Title:
Fahed Abu-Akel moderator tape, 2002.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (214th : 2002 : Columbus, Ohio) (creator), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services. (creator)
Subject names:
Abu-Akel, Fahed.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281923
Title:
Opening worship, 214th General Assembly, 2002.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (214th : 2002 : Columbus, Ohio) (creator), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services. (creator)
Subject names:
Abu-Akel, Fahed.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281921
Title:
Passing the Gavel.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Louisville -- Dr. Charles E.S. Kraemer (right) hands over the moderator's gavel to Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, the first black person ever to be moderator of the 900,000 member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern). Dr. Bottoms, 66, the pastor of the predominantly white Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., won a first-ballot victory at the denomination's 114th General Assembly in Louisville to succeed Dr. Kraemer as moderator. Dr. Bottoms had already set to other precedents in the 113-year-old PCUS, when he served as the first black moderator of the Louisville Presbytery and the first black moderator of any PCUS synod (Kentucky) -- both in 1962. Credit Must Read: Religious News Service Photo. (C-LOU-6C-74-DS)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service., Bottoms, Lawrence., Kraemer, Charles E. S., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American clergy., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Louisville (Ky.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281788
Title:
Presbyterians at Pittsburgh 1958.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Group photo at Soldier's Memorial, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915- (photographer), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dept. of Stewardship and Promotion. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh, Pa.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., United Presbyterian Church of North America., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Soldiers & Sailors Military Museum and Memorial (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281787
Title:
United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America seal.
Description:
Adopted 1959.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Seal., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Topics:
Seals (Numismatics), Religious institutions--Seals.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280938
Title:
Ben Weir interviewed at 1992 General Assembly.
Description:
Ben Weir on his experience as a hostage, on the experiences of other hostage families, and on peacemaking and breaking the cycle of violence.
Creator:
Weir, Ben, 1923-2016.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (204th : 1992 : Milwaukee), Weir, Ben, 1923-2016.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180811
Title:
Cecil Corbett speech at General Assembly, 1968.
Description:
Cecil Corbett was a Nez Perce Presbyterian minister and church worker. A member of First Indian Presbyterian Church (Kamiah, Idaho), he served as president of Cook College and Theological School in Tempe, Arizona, as national agency staff liaison to Native American churches, and in retirement as an itinerant pastor. He died in 2020 of COVID-19.
Creator:
Cook College and Theological School., Corbett, Cecil, 1931-2020.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (180th : 1968 : Minneapolis), Corbett, Cecil, 1931-2020.
Topics:
Indigenous Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180807
Title:
Highlights of the 180th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church U.S.A, 1968.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179066
Title:
General Assembly worship, 14 June 1998.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (1998 : 210th : Charlotte, N.C.) (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (1998 : 210th : Charlotte, N.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Charlotte (N.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179062
Title:
181st General Assembly press releases regarding Black Manifesto and La Raza, 1969.
Description:
Press releases that spotlight the demands made at the 181st General Assembly in San Antonio, Texas, by James Forman of the National Black Economic Development Conference and Eliezer Risco of La Raza.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Council. (publisher), Forman, James, 1928-2005. (author), Risco, Eliezer. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Forman, James, 1928-2005., Smith, John Coventry, 1903-, Risco, Eliezer., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Tex.), National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.)
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African Americans--Economic conditions., Hispanic Americans--Economic conditions.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:178705
Title:
Presentations to the 1970 General Assembly Task Force and Standing Committee on Women.
Description:
Recorded in Chicago at the 1970 General Assembly. Includes Lois Boesch speech on side A, Women's Lib presentation on side B. Side A irretrievable as of 2021. Donation of A.G. Earle, August 22, 1983.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Task Force and Standing Committee on Women., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Boesch, Lois
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Task Force and Standing Committee on Women., Boesch, Lois.
Topics:
Women in the Presbyterian Church., Presbyterian Church--Religious aspects--Feminism--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:168277
Title:
207th General Assembly button.
Description:
Button collected by Andy Sale from the 207th General Assembly in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1995.
Creator:
Sale, Andy. (collector)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly (207th : 1995 : Cincinnati, Ohio)
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161409
Title:
Portrait of Marj Carpenter.
Description:
Marj Carpenter, Moderator of the 207th Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly.
Creator:
Silvestri, Gilbert. (photographer)
Subject names:
Carpenter, Marj--Portraits., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly. Moderator (1995 : Carpenter)
Topics:
Presbyterian women--Portraits.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161408
Title:
198th General Assembly, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1986.
Description:
William H. Wilson and newly elected moderator Benjamin Weir at 198th General Assembly.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly (198th : 1986 : Minneapolis, Minn.) (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (198th : 1986 : Minneapolis, Minn.), Wilson, William H., 1924-, Weir, Ben, 1923-2016.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Missionaries--Lebanon--Beirut--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Minneapolis (Minn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161387
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: A dove from the Exhibit area.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Doves in art.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161380
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Council on Church and Race exhibit.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161378
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Commissioners awaiting their turn to speak from floor microphones.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161377

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