Civil rights, protests, and social reformers

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History of Presbyterian and ecumenical involvement in civil rights movements, protests, and social justice issues, as well as individual social reformers and activists. Featured image: Presbyterian peacemaking rally to freeze nuclear weapons, 1985.

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Title:
Interview of Dean H. Lewis by R. Douglas Brackenridge, Tape 3, Side 1.
Description:
Cassette tape 3, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses social pronouncements of the General Assembly and Presbyterians' history of supporting education. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Topics:
Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345268
Title:
Interview of Dean H. Lewis by R. Douglas Brackenridge, Tape 2, Side 2.
Description:
Cassette tape 2, side 2 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses the work of the Advisory Council on Church and Society, including the creation of task forces. Lewis also discusses commissioners' resolutions at general assemblies, the General Assembly Mission Council, and other aspects of church polity. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly Mission Council.
Topics:
Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345267
Title:
Interview of Dean H. Lewis by R. Douglas Brackenridge, Tape 2, Side 1.
Description:
Cassette tape 2, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses the functions of the Advisory Council on Church and Society and the processes of establishing task forces. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality.
Topics:
Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344680
Title:
Interview of Dean H. Lewis by R. Douglas Brackenridge, Tape 1, Side 1.
Description:
Cassette tape 1, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses his upbringing as a Southern Baptist in Missouri, his attendance of Yale Divinity School, his time as a pastor in Springdale, Arkansas, and his career leading up to his time in the Office of Church and Society. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021., Yale University. Divinity School., William Jewell College., Niebuhr, H. Richard (Helmut Richard), 1894-1962., First Presbyterian Church (Springdale, Ark.)
Topics:
Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344362
Title:
Interview of Dean H. Lewis by R. Douglas Brackenridge, Tape 1, Side 2.
Description:
Cassette tape 1, side 2 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses the history of the Department of Social Education and Action (SEA), the Department of Social Education and Evangelism, and the Office of Church and Society and the work of the Office of Church and Society throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society.
Topics:
Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.
Geographic subjects:
South Africa.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344318
Title:
Dean Lewis at Program Agency Board.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021.
Topics:
Political activists--United States., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344187
Title:
Cedar Park Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020.
Creator:
Cedar Park Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020 (creator)
Subject names:
Cedar Park Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181724
Title:
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Worship in wake of Philadelphia police murder of Walter Wallace Jr.
Creator:
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181722
Title:
Supplee Presbyterian Church (Maple Glen, Pa.) prayer, 2020.
Description:
Prayer video in wake of Philadelphia police murder of Walter Wallace Jr.
Creator:
Supplee Presbyterian Church (Maple Glen, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
Supplee Presbyterian Church (Maple Glen, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery County (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181721
Title:
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Creator:
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181696
Title:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Sermon given by Rev. Patrice Fowler-Searcy, "Taking It To The Streets."
Creator:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (creator), Fowler-Searcy, Patrice. (speaker)
Subject names:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181669
Title:
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Rev. John Wilkinson on the Philadelphia police murder of Walter Wallace Jr.
Creator:
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator), Wilkinson, John. (speaker)
Subject names:
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181661
Title:
Bidwell United Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Creator:
Bidwell United Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
Bidwell United Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181637
Title:
Bidwell United Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020.
Creator:
Bidwell United Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
Bidwell United Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181636
Title:
Opinion of the Hon. John Fox, president judge of the judicial district composed of the counties of Bucks and Montgomery, against the exercise of Negro suffrage in Pennsylvania
Description:
"Opinion of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bucks County, delivered by Judge Fox, 28th December, 1837, in the matter of the contested election of Abraham Fretz returned as elected commissioner of Bucks county."--Page 3.Caption title: Negro suffrage. Signed on cover: W.T. Rogers, Senate.
Creator:
Fox, John, 1787-1849. (author)
Subject names:
Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Bucks County)
Topics:
Elections--Pennsylvania--Bucks County., African Americans--Suffrage--Pennsylvania., Freedmen--Legal status, laws, etc.--Pennsylvania.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141102
Title:
Presbyterians at Pittsburgh 1958.
Description:
Dr. Charles Leber and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Overseas Breakfast.
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915-2002. (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.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Leber, Charles T. (Charles Tudor), 1924-
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7419
Title:
Presbyterians at Pittsburgh 1958.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the Overseas Breakfast in Hotel Webster Hall.
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.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7045
Title:
Maggie Kuhn pins Mayor Rizzo.
Description:
Maggie "pins" Mayor Rizzo May 4, 1975 at ceremony honoring Vince Giglia for his work as advocate of persons with learning problems.
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie., Rizzo, Frank, 1920-1991., Gray Panthers.
Topics:
Social reformers--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6942
Title:
Dr. Charles Leber and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Description:
Dr. Charles Leber and Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. Charles Leber and the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relation invited Dr. Martin Luther King as their guest. [Frame 70].
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915- (photographer), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dept. of Stewardship and Promotion. (publisher)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Leber, Charles T. (Charles Tudor), 1924-, United Presbyterian Church of North America. General Assembly (100th : 1958 : Pittsburgh), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh)
Topics:
Christian union--Presbyterian Church--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6139
Title:
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians," tape 2.
Description:
Sermon delivered to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations on prognosis for mission work, social justice, etc., at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, 1958.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4871

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