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Title:Description:Women carry a banner as they march down Pennsylvania Avenue to a pro-abortion rally. [This photograph is from the same demonstration as "Abortion: pro" (PC-42317) and both are from the counter-protest referenced in the caption for "Abortion: con." (PC-42318[b])]Creator:Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Pro-choice movement--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147173
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Title:Description:Pro-abortion demonstrators mass at the west front of the Capitol Building. [This photograph is from the same demonstration as "Abortion: pro" (PC-42317) and both are from the counter-protest referenced in the caption for "Abortion: con." (PC-42318[b])]Creator:Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Pro-choice movement--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147019
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Title:Description:They Want to March.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)Subject names:Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--20th century.Geographic subjects:Alabama.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8620
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Description:Clergymen in Forefront of March.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)Subject names:Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--20th century.Geographic subjects:Alabama.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8616
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Description:Clergymen Continue Selma Protest.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)Subject names:Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma--20th century.Geographic subjects:Selma (Ala.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8602
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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
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Description:Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.Creator:Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.Geographic subjects:Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7398
