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:
Egbert W. Smith files related to the Korean Independence Movement, 1919.
Description:
Includes letters from Korea regarding Korean Independence Movement.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea., Missions--Korea., Civilians in war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345360
Title:
Egbert W. Smith files related to the Korean Independence Movement, 1919.
Description:
Includes Presbyterian Church in Canada statement on Korean situation.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea., Missions--Korea., Civilians in war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345344
Title:
Egbert W. Smith files related to the Korean Independence Movement, 1919.
Description:
Includes Korean and missionary statements on Korean situation.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea., Missions--Korea., Civilians in war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345297
Title:
An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon Slave-keeping.
Creator:
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813. (author), Albert Oldach & Son. (binder)
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:174024
Title:
Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women:
Creator:
Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women (1st : 1837 : New York, N.Y.) (author)
Topics:
Slavery--United States--Congresses., Antislavery movements--United States--Congresses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141321
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:
The African's right to citizenship.
Topics:
African Americans--Colonization, African Americans--Civil rights.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112868
Title:
Portrait of Reverend Charles Henry Parkhurst, D.D.
Description:
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D. "He never feared the face of man."--Earl of Morton on John Knox.
Creator:
Harper & Brothers. (publisher)
Subject names:
Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:15973
Title:
Ohio ministers' letters, 1820-1851.
Description:
Collection consists of 16 letters, many between Presbyterian ministers, chiefly Samuel Crothers of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chillcothe Presbytery. Topics include meetings of presbytery, family news, and abolitionist sentiment in the Synod of Cincinnati. Samuel Crothers, Presbyterian minister and antislavery activist, was born October 20, 1783 in Chambersburg, Pa. He attended preparatory school in Lexington, Ky. and trained in theology with John Mason of New York, N.Y. In 1820, Crothers became pastor of Presbyterian Church (Greenfield, Ohio). He preached in favor of temperance, opposed the Old School / New School schism, and preached and wrote extensively against slavery. Crothers died in Oswego, Ill., July 2, 1856.
Creator:
Crothers, Samuel, 1783-1856. (author), Gilliland, James, 1769-1845. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Presbytery of Chillicothe., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Synod of Cincinnati.
Topics:
Antislavery movements--Ohio.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10501
Title:
Sonnet by William Lloyd Garrison.
Description:
Sonnet. [Written and signed by William Lloyd Garrison. Boston, August 9, 1875.]
Creator:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. (author)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7435
Title:
Henry Highland Garnet.
Description:
[Henry Highland Garnet.]
Creator:
Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906. (engraver), Bruce, J. (photographer)
Subject names:
Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882.
Topics:
Abolitionist--United States., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7098
Title:
Portrait of Charlotte Forten Grimke.
Description:
Charlotte Forten Grimke.
Subject names:
Forten, Charlotte L.
Topics:
African American women abolitionists--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6931
Title:
Henry Ward Beecher.
Description:
[Henry Ward Beecher.]
Subject names:
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy., Abolitionists--United States., Social reformers--United States--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6394
Title:
Godfrey Gillman & Co. mob attack.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: The mob attacking the warehouse of Godfrey Gilman & Co., Alton, III., and on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, at the time Lovejoy was murdered and his press destroyed.
Subject names:
Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837--Death and burial.
Topics:
Riots--Illinois--Alton.
Geographic subjects:
Alton (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5592
Title:
Senator Charles Sumner.
Description:
Etching of Sen. Charles Sumner.
Creator:
Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872. (publisher), Hall, H. B. (artist)
Subject names:
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874--Portraits.
Topics:
Legislators--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5129

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