Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31163 NCC OFFICIALS FACE MISSISSIPPI PRESS
JACKSON, Miss. -- Christian motivation behind civil rights programs in
Mississippi is stressed by two National Council of Churches race relations
leaders as they meet reporters in the concourse of the airport at Jackson.
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, left, chief executive officer of the United
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and chairman of the NCC’s Commission on
Religion and Race, and Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the
commission, explained the summer student program which will bring some
500-1000 college students to the state to conduct “freedom schools” for
Negroes, and a long-range anti-poverty “Delta Ministry” to be launched in
the fall under NCC auspices. The Council was conducting orientation sessions
for summer program volunteers, who will work under the direction of civil
rights groups in the democracy education and voter registration effort.
Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EC-JM-6C-64-NBM)
Creator:
Chambers, Elsie May. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Clergy--Mississippi--Jackson., Press conferences--Mississippi--Jackson.
Geographic subjects:
Jackson (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350224