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:
Trick or Treat.
Description:
Columbia, Mo. -- These Columbia high school students are typical of the thousands of teen-agers and elementary school youngsters who took part in trick or treat fun for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Halloween night. Largely church-sponsored, the project is an annual affair conducted to help the hungry and sick children abroad with hospital care and food. The movement started in 1950 by the Rev. Clyde Allison, pastor of the Bridesburg Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. Today, the interfaith project benefits millions of youngsters in all parts of the world.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., UNICEF., Allison, Clyde., Bridesburg Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Church work with youth--Missouri--Columbia., High school students--Missouri--Columbia., Halloween.
Geographic subjects:
Columbia (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2147
Title:
Dr. Eugene Smathers, new United Presbyterian Moderator.
Description:
Portland, Ore. -- Dr. Eugene Smathers, 60, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Big Lick, Tennessee, which has never had more than 75 members, scored a surprise upset when he was elected moderator of the 3.3 million-member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dr. Smathers defeated Dr. William H. Hudnut Jr., of New York, who recently led the denomination's Fifty Million Fund to a successful conclusion. The new moderator suceeds Dr. Ganse Little, minister of the Pasadena, California Presbyterian church. Dr. Smathers said he hopes to "extend the strength and mission of the Church to the poor of the poor of the world."
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Smathers, Eugene Feland, 1907-1968., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Calvary Presbyterian Church of Big Lick (Crossville, Tenn.), Hudnut, William H. (William Herbert), 1905-, Little, Ganse, 1904-1990., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4036
Title:
Plenary at the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Description:
Plenary at the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4038
Title:
Memorial Coliseum signage with passersby.
Description:
Memorial Coliseum signage for the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly in Portland Oregon with passersby.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4040
Title:
Protesters at the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Description:
It can be stopped. Protesters at the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4041
Title:
Protesters at the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Description:
People change buildings. Protesters at the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4042
Title:
Worship, view from behind podium.
Description:
View from behind the podium at the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4044
Title:
Protesters at the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Description:
The God of Chartres glass is dead. Protesters at the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4045
Title:
Protesters at the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Description:
A chapel yes; $600,000 no! Protesters at the 179th United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Creator:
Karsch, Carl G. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4046
Title:
UPCUSA Civil Rights demonstration.
Description:
New York--A peaceful pre-Independence Day demonstration for racial equality was held by some 500 clergymen and members of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The placard-carrying demonstrators marched for 45 minutes in a City Hall Plaza area, then heard addresses by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, center, and Dr. W. Eugene Houston, left, a Harlem pastor who heads the presbytery's new commission on religion and race. The Mayor called for enactment of President Kennedy's civil rights proposals and pledged continuing efforts toward greater racial equality in New York City. Dr. Houston warned against the city "dragging its feet"on integration and called for acceleration of school desegregation.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand),, 1910-1991.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century., Civil rights--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6993
Title:
Billy Graham Crusade.
Description:
18,500 Jam Garden for Graham Crusade. New York--Some 18,500 persons jammed Madison Square Garden to hear Evangelist Billy Graham open his six-weeks New York crusade. The evangelist spoke for 45 minutes from a nine-foor platform erected at one end of the huge arena. He will give a series of Gospel sermons every night during the crusade. After his address at the 90-minute rally, some 485 men, women and teenagers approached the rostrum to make "decisions for Christ," the largest number to do so at the opening of any Graham crusade in this country. Mr. Graham was invited to come this city by the Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Creator:
Goldstein, Sam. (photographer), International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Graham, Billy, 1918-, Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Evangelists--United States., Revivals--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6998
Title:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. struck by a rock.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is struck by a rock during a march in Chicago on August 5, 1966.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7010
Title:
National Council is constituted.
Description:
National Council is constituted.
Creator:
Miller-Ertler Studios. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7024
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
Title:
From the Children of America to Europe's Needy.
Description:
From the Children of America to Europe's Needy: These three youngsters add their contribution of canned food to the ever increasing stockpile being collected by the churches of America for distribution to Europe's millions of sick and distressed.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Food relief, American--Europe.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7079
Title:
Clergy Lead Civil Rights Washington March.
Description:
Religious, labor and civil rights leaders from New York City came to the nation's capital for a March on Washington to urge early passage of the civil rights bill without "crippling amendments." Some of the 1200 marchers are shown arriving at Union Station.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7115
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:
Dr. C. C. Morrison.
Description:
Portrait of Dr. Charles C. Morrison.
Subject names:
Morrison, Charles Clayton, 1874-1966., Religious News Service--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7160
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:
Mississippi residents vote.
Description:
Mississippi Delta residents await their turn to start the process of registering to vote. Encouraging the impoverished residents of the state to take advantage of their voting rights is a key phase of the National Council of Churches' Delta Ministry. | Text transcribed from original caption: Mississippi Delta Negroes await their turn to start the process of registering to vote. Encouraging the impoverished residents of the state to take advantage of their voting rights is a key phase of the National Council of Churches' Delta Ministry.
Creator:
Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi--20th century., Voter registration--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Mississippi.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7163

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