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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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New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286552
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286551
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286550
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286549
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286548
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286547
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286546
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286545
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286544
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286543
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286542
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286541
Title:
New Hope Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington.
Description:
Photo documentation related to the arson committed by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., New Hope Baptist Church (Seattle, Wash.)
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hates crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286540
Title:
Robeson County, N.C. - Eddie Hatcher / Timothy Jacobs - National Public Radio (NPR)
Description:
News program segment by NPR's Donna Carter regarding Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs, two Native American civil rights activists who held hostages at the office of The Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, North Carolina. Hatcher and Jacobs were protesting discrimination against minority communities, specifically Native Americans, in the criminal justice and court systems of Robeson County. Also covered is deputy sheriff Kevin Stone's killing of Jimmy Earl Cummings, a Lumbee Indian man.
Creator:
National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Carter, Donna. (reporter)
Subject names:
Hatcher, Eddie., Jacobs, Timothy., Cummings, Jimmy Earl.
Topics:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--20th century., Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--Robeson County., Police corruption--North Carolina--Robeson County.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286443
Title:
National Public Radio (NPR) - Blakely, Georgia, June 28, 1990.
Description:
News program by NPR's John Burnett regarding Blakely, Georgia's Concerned Black Citizens Committee's federal civil rights suit against the City of Blakely and the Blakely Fire Department. The suit alleges that Blakely fire chief Franklin Brown and two of his firefighters belong to the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Creator:
National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Burnett, John F. (reporter)
Subject names:
Center for Democratic Renewal., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
Topics:
Racism against Black people--United States., White supremacy movements--Georgia., Race discrimination--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286345
Title:
Life and Death in Blakely, Georgia, 1991.
Description:
Movie produced by the Center for Democratic Renewal documenting the Ku Klux Klan's involvement in and influence on the City of Blakely Fire Department. Includes coverage of the deaths of Charles McCoy and Antavious Williams, two African American children, purportedly due to the fire department's negligence; an interview segment with Sara Ann McCoy, mother of Charles; a speech by Rev. Dr. Mac Charles Jones, vice chair of the Center for Democratic Renewal; interview segments with Ben Cawthon and Wilbur Robinson of Blakely's Concerned Black Citizens Committee; and a statement by David Griffin, former Blakely City Council member, asserting that Blakely fire chief Franklin Brown was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Creator:
Center for Democratic Renewal. (producer), Levitas, Daniel. (producer), Bailey, Louis. (film director), Ettinger, Bruce. (film editor)
Subject names:
Center for Democratic Renewal., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
Topics:
Racism against Black people--United States., White supremacy movements--Georgia., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286343
Title:
The Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice Procedures and Guidelines.
Description:
Adopted by the 193rd General Assembly.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency. Ministries of Health, Education and Social Justice.
Topics:
Racial justice., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Legal aid., Discrimination in justice administration.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286335
Title:
Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice.
Description:
Pamphlet published by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency.
Topics:
Racial justice., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Legal aid., Discrimination in justice administration.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286330
Title:
Fund for Legal Aid: Racism, Justice, and the Church's Responsibility.
Description:
Church & Society, Vol. 75, No. 1, September/October 1984.
Creator:
Lancaster, Kathy. (editor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Program Agency. Unit II-Ministries of Health, Education and Social Justice., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race.
Topics:
Racial justice., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Legal aid., Discrimination in justice administration., Hate crimes--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286271
Title:
Letter from Leonard Peltier to Rev. Ned H. Benson, circa 1973.
Description:
Written by Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist, regarding his arrest. Addressed to Rev. Ned H. Benson, pastor of Forest Park United Presbyterian Church in New Berlin, Wisconsin.
Creator:
Peltier, Leonard. (author), Benson, Ned H. (addressee)
Subject names:
Peltier, Leonard.
Topics:
Indian activists--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286269

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