Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Tries to calm crowd.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC 39354 TRIES TO CALM CROWD CHICAGO -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was among five persons arrested in a rock-throwing confrontation between blacks and police on the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, uses a police microphone in an attempt to quiet demonstrators. Mr. Jackson and four others were arrested when they refused to lead a group of about 600 demonstrators away from a construction site on the campus. They had gone their to press their demands for jobs for blacks at Chicago construction sites. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-9B-69-FPC)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in employment--Illinois--Chicago., Police--Illinois--Chicago., Arrest--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358351
Title:
Beautiful Santa.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C 39730 BEAUTIFUL SANTA DENVER -- Professional Santa Claus Jean Apperson sits patiently beneath a hair dryer during the finishing phase of his weekly shampoo, bleach, setting and styling of his silvery hair and beard. Mr. Apperson, who has been playing Santa for 31 years, gets his beauty treatment in Denver, not the North Pole. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-DEN-12C-69-DS)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Apperson, Jean.
Topics:
Christmas--Colorado--Denver.
Geographic subjects:
Denver (Colo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300791
Title:
Peace March in Atlanta.
Description:
Peace March in Atlanta on Easter Sunday, 1969 to honor the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's death and call for an end to the Vietnam War.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8102

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