Civil rights, protests, and social reformers

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Letter written by Rev. Thomas Kilgore of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the UPCUSA. In the letter, Rev. Kilgore urgently asks for financial support for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Creator:
Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998. (author), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (addressee)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345245
Description:
Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.
Topics:
Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344177
Description:
On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310
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
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:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116447
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:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116420
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:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116417
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:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116415
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
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
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
Description:
Three religious leaders participating in the March on Washington greet a Negro woman whose arrest made headlines in 1955. Mrs. Rosa Parks is shown with, left to right, Father John F. Cronin of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; and Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. In 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested when she refused to obey a bus driver's order to give her seat to a white person. Her case was one of several that arroused the nation, helped weld Negroes and whites in campaigns that culminated in the March on Washington.
Creator:
Muse, Seth. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
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:7253
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.
Creator:
Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
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., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
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:7220
Description:
Eugene Carson Blake, left, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and chairman of the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, and Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, [meet with reporters in the concourse of the Jackson, Mississippi airport to explain the Delta Ministry's summer student program].
Creator:
Chambers, Elsie M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Jackson (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7199
Description:
Blake, in straw hat, is preceded by William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, and followed by Roman Catholic Father Joseph Connolly, as group moves in on Gwynn Oak Park to challenge segregation. [From Presbyterian Life, August 1, 1963, p. 25.]
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Woodlawn--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak Park (Woodlawn, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7105

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