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:
They Want to March.
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
Title:
Clergymen in Forefront of March.
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
Title:
Clergymen Continue Selma Protest.
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
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:
Clergyman arrested in anti-segregation fight.
Description:
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen have been among some 300 persons arrested in a series of efforts to integrate the privately owned Gwynn Oak Amusement Park. In one of the anti-segregation demonstrations outside the park, a minister donned a red, white and blue "Uncle Sam" outfit to symbolize the fight for racial equality. He was promptly arrested on trespassing charges. The clergyman, the Rev. David Andrews, assistant chaplain at Morgan State College, is shown here being taken into custody by police.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Andrews, David., 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--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7310

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