Religious News Service Photographs

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Text transcribed from caption: PF-26262 MINISTERS, RELIGION PROFESSORS JAILED AS FREEDOM RIDERS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- These “Freedom Riders” were smiling as they arrived here by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they sought service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr. David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; George B. Smith (head partially visible), Negro law student at Yale University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group; the Rev. Gaylor [Gaylord] Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, Negro theological students at Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Others arrested at the “white only” counter were four Negro integration leaders, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist church here; the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth of Birmingham; the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, an executive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Bernard S. Lee, one of nine students expelled from Alabama State College last year for trying to stage a sit-in demonstration. Another Negro leader, the Rev. Solomon S. Seay, executive secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was short in the wrist the same day, reportedly by a white man in a passing car. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-5D-61-DP)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Maguire, John David., Swift, David Everett, 1914-, Smith, George Bundy., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Noyce, Gaylord B., Carter, Clyde Larocque., Jones, Charles, 1937-2019.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358357
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Text transcribed from caption: #PBLEM-18874 PRINCIPALS IN ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott here protesting segregation in city buses. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19 for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December after a Negro seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Negro riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-RAM-3C-56-NAB-PBLEM)
Creator:
Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., Bennett, L. Roy., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hubbard, H.H., Nixon, Edgar Daniel.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358342
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Montgomery, Ala.--Teenagers representing the Methodist Youth Assembly picket the state capitol here in protest against a bill that would permit cities to legalize liquor sales. Under present law, counties make the decision. Protestant clergy, laymen and young people from many parts of Alabama stormed the capitol to protest the bill, introduced by Senator George Quarles. Following a hearing by the Senate Temperance Committee, the Quarles Measure was killed by a 4-3 vote. Leading the picket line were (left to right) Dan Jackson and O.C. Brown.
Creator:
Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Temperance and religion--Alabama--Montgomery.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11022
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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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