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:
Council on Church and Race, circa 1965.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: William, Patterson, A. McClean, Ben Clark, ? Dr. King Miss Althea William, Att. Clarence Mayfield
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000., William, Althea., Mayfield, Clarence., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Clark, Ben.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., African Americans--Civil rights.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344032
Title:
Council on Church and Race, circa 1965.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: R-L Dr King + Mr Williams Dr King is receiving Man of the year presented from Mr Williams
Creator:
Mobley, Bob. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., African Americans--Civil rights.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344030
Title:
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. subject file.
Description:
Various articles, publications, and educational materials related to the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author), Early, Gerald Lyn. (author), Dorrien, Gary J. (author), Clinton, Hillary Rodham. (author), Sharma, Arvind. (author), Gilman, Andrew. (author), Swearer, Donald K., 1934-. (author), Williams, Preston N. (author), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Harvard Divinity School., X, Malcolm, 1925-1965., United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation., Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969., Dixon, Maceo.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American civil rights workers., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Liberation theology., Ethics., Black power.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175658
Title:
A Correlation Between the Action-Norms Within the Religious Ethics of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Description:
Written by Katie G. Cannon, Ph.D. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American civil rights workers., Christian ethics.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175291
Title:
The Normative and Pragmatic Factors in the Ethical Method of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Description:
Written by Katie G. Cannon. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the course requirements in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Shinn, Roger Lincoln., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American seminarians., Women seminarians., African American civil rights workers., Ethics.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:174364
Title:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech on the church's role in the Civil Rights Movement on July 6, 1965, at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ held in Chicago, Illinois, July 1-7, 1965. This speech marked the first time King used the phrase "we shall overcome."
Subject names:
United Church of Christ. General Synod., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects.--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:143453
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:
Speakers at an anti-war rally.
Description:
Speakers at an anti-war rally [From left: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Henry Steel Commage, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. John C. Bennet].
Creator:
Goodwin, John C. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives., Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8020
Title:
Police arrest Dr. King for loitering.
Description:
PP-22643 POLICE ARREST DR. KING FOR "LOITERING" MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is hustled off to jail by Montgomery police where he was detained for 15 minutes on a charge of loitering. Dr. King, leader of the Negro boycott against Jim Crow buses here in 1956, was arrested outside a City Hall courtroom where he had gone to attend a hearing for a Negro accused of attacking an integration leader. The 29-year-old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church here accused the police of beating and kicking him. He was released in $100 bond. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-9A-58-JS).
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7465
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:
Now advances someday.
Description:
[Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene Carson Blake, and others bow their heads in prayer during the March on Washington. From Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 9].
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7327
Title:
Hosea L. Williams, Gayraud S. Wilmore, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King.
Description:
[Hosea L. Williams (standing, left) and Gayraud S. Wilmore (standing, center) at a press conference with Martin Luther King, Jr. (seated, center) and Coretta Scott King (seated, right)]
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., Wilmore, Gayraud S., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7202
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:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. struck by a rock.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is struck by a rock during a march in Chicago on August 5, 1966.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7010
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

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