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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TV for Sunday school.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30354 TV FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Sunday school lesson in a new format -- via closed-circuit television. Here Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Conway Lanford, religious education supervisor at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., is shown as he delivered a Sunday school message for children of base personnel. Devoted to the SOS (Share Our Substance) program of Church World Service, the talk was taped and then piped into the Air Command and Staff College building which is used for Protestant Sunday school classes. The Air University Television Department cooperated in the program, believed to be the first use of closed-circuit TV in a U.S. Sunday school. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JJM-NY-12B-63-W)
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Air Force--Chaplains., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Air University (U.S.), Lanford, Conway.
Topics:
Church and mass media--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Protestant churches.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.), Maxwell Air Force Base (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352987
Title:
Church World Service press release, 1963.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Air Force--Chaplains., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Air University (U.S.), Lanford, Conway.
Topics:
Church and mass media--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Protestant churches.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.), Maxwell Air Force Base (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352721
Title:
Youth night at Graham crusade.
Description:
Upraised hands in answer to a question on age by Billy Graham testify to the preponderance of young people in the congregation of some 10,000 persons attending a special youth night service during the evangelist's Montgomery, Ala., crusade.
Creator:
Crusade Information Service (Atlanta, Ga.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topics:
Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Youth--Religious life--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151630
Title:
White and Negro youths answer evangelist's call.
Description:
About 500 white and black youths come forward to make "decisions for Christ" in answer to a call by Billy Graham during his interracial crusade in Montgomery.
Creator:
Crusade Information Service (Atlanta, Ga.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topics:
Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Youth--Religious life--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151431
Title:
Evangelist meets with Negro leaders in South.
Description:
Evangelist Billy Graham meets with African American leaders during his interracial crusade in Montgomery, Ala.
Creator:
Crusade Information Service (Atlanta, Ga.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018., Watkins, Levi., Williams, Larry H., Owens, James H.
Topics:
Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151359
Title:
97,500 hear evangelist during Birmingham crusade.
Description:
Article written for the Religious News Service.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topics:
Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150721
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

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