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:
Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 3.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116204
Title:
Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 1.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115623
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:
Strategy meeting for student demonstration, circa 1960's.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Atlantic.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--United States., African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104616
Title:
The national mission in youth's poverty and plenty.
Description:
One of seven chapters reprinted from the Board of National Missions Annual Report for 1966. Focuses on Watts Neighborhood Association and Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles, California.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (author), Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (author)
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Poor., Church work with youth., Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:81465
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:
Portland, Oregon.
Description:
Portland, Oregon. [Image from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, regarding outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71684
Title:
Portland, Oregon.
Description:
Portland, Oregon. [Image from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, regarding outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71683
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:
Presbytery of Winchester Women of the Church meeting.
Description:
Presbytery of Winchester Women of the Church meeting at First Presbyterian Church (Winchester, Va.) 15 April 1971.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Presbytery of Winchester., First Presbyterian Church (Winchester, Va.)
Topics:
Presbyterian women., Women of the Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.)
Geographic subjects:
Winchester (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11050
Title:
Jackie Robinson speaks at National Conference of Christians and Jews meeting.
Description:
Jackie Robinson speaks at National Conference of Christians and Jews meeting.
Creator:
Irving Kaufman Studios (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Subject names:
National Conference of Christians and Jews., Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972., Religious News Service--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11024
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
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:
Celebrating the Year of the Older Person (1983)
Description:
"Jean Keir Beaver, winner of the 1983 United Presbyterian Peace Seeker award, discusses peacemaking with Shubert and Eva Frye. Elderhostelers in Newton, New Jersey study the great outdoors. "Green Thumb" program of the National Farmers Union. Telephone service, staffed by retired volunteers, aids elderly in New York City. Maggie Kuhn talks about the Gray Panther organization and her philosophies on aging."
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Support Agency. Communications Unit. Video One (creator)
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995., Frye, Eva Watson., Frye, G. Shubert., Gray Panthers.
Topics:
Older people--Political activity--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10185
Title:
Portrait of Maggie Kuhn.
Description:
Portrait of Maggie Kuhn.
Creator:
Bryan, Julie Jensen. (photographer)
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995.--Portraits., Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995--Archives.
Topics:
Women social reformers--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10123
Title:
Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8874
Title:
Policeman arresting youth, Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8739
Title:
Burning car, Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8662
Title:
Watts Rebellion
Description:
[Watts riots.]
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8653
Title:
Police chasing men, Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8648

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