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:
Rabbi beaten in Mississippi voter drive.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31274 RABBI BEATEN IN MISSISSIPPI VOTER DRIVE HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Segregationists wielding metal bars attacked Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, Ohio, and two other white civil rights workers for their voter registration work with Negroes at Hattiesburg, Miss. He is shown leaving a hospital there after being treated for severe head and body injuries. The rabbi is accompanied (left) by the Rev. Charles W. Rawlings, director of the Cleveland Church Federation’s Office of Religion and Race. The Hattiesburg voter registration campaign, supervised by the National Council of Churches’ race commission, has been maintained since last winter on an interreligious basis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-7C-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996., Rawlings, Charles W., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Rabbis--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Victims of violent crimes--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350284
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
Creator:
Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ)--Clergy., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350244
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
Creator:
Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Singing--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350243
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
Creator:
Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Prayer--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350242
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
Creator:
Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350241
Title:
Dismissed from hospital.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996., Rawlings, Charles W., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Rabbis--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Victims of violent crimes--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349733
Title:
Delta Ministry posters.
Description:
Hattiesburg, Miss.--Posters in the window of the Hattiesburg, Miss. offices of the National Council of Churches' Mississippi Delta Ministry call attention to various phases of the long-range relief, rehabilitation and education program among impoverished Negroes and whites. Hailed by many and criticized by others, largely for its encouragement of the Negro voter registration and efforts to organize laborers, the Ministry is the first such project in this country to receive support from the World Council of Churches. Headquartered in Greenville, Ministry centers also are maintained in Cleveland, Hattiesburg and McComb, Miss.
Creator:
Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7369
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Hattiesburg Minister's Project volunteer clergymen participate in a morning prayer service.
Creator:
Bollis, George. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hattiesburg Ministers Project., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7161
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Picketing demonstration in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Creator:
Bollis, George. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hattiesburg Ministers Project., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7132
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Hattiesburg Minister's Project volunteer clergymen meet in a local church.
Creator:
Bollis, George. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hattiesburg Ministers Project., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7064

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