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:
Fellowship Presbyterian Church (Huntsville, Ala.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Rev. Gregory Bentley preaching.
Creator:
Fellowship Presbyterian Church (Huntsville, Ala.) (creator), Bentley, Gregory. (speaker)
Subject names:
Fellowship Presbyterian Church (Huntsville, Ala.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Huntsville (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181690
Title:
Church rebuilding, Birmingham, Alabama.
Description:
Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179071
Title:
Church rebuilding, Birmingham, Alabama.
Description:
Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179070
Title:
Church rebuilding, Birmingham, Alabama.
Description:
Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179069
Title:
Church rebuilding, Birmingham, Alabama.
Description:
Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179068
Title:
God bless - whom? :
Description:
Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Goode, Richard. (narrator), Carter, Nancy. (director)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Alabama.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116487
Title:
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963.
Description:
Protestant Council of the City of New York panel discussion with James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dr. Thomas C. Kilgore, Jr., focusing on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963. A program in the television series: Our Protestant heritage.
Subject names:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham., 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)--History--Bombardment--Sept. 15, 1963.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71692
Title:
Youth protest liquor bill.
Description:
Montgomery, Ala.--Teenagers representing the Methodist Youth Assembly picket the state capitol here in protest against a bill that would permit cities to legalize liquor sales. Under present law, counties make the decision. Protestant clergy, laymen and young people from many parts of Alabama stormed the capitol to protest the bill, introduced by Senator George Quarles. Following a hearing by the Senate Temperance Committee, the Quarles Measure was killed by a 4-3 vote. Leading the picket line were (left to right) Dan Jackson and O.C. Brown.
Creator:
Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Temperance and religion--Alabama--Montgomery.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11022

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