Social and political issues and activism

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Church involvement in social and political issues and activism, including civil rights, protests, and war work. Also, social and political reformers connected to the church. See the following related collections: Civil rights, protests, and social reformers; Wars. Featured image: Religious with Rosa Parks, 1963.

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Title:
Fellowship Presbyterian Church (Huntsville, Ala.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Rev. Gregory Bentley preaching.
Creator:
Fellowship Presbyterian Church (Huntsville, Ala.) (creator), Bentley, Gregory. (speaker)
Subject names:
Fellowship Presbyterian Church (Huntsville, Ala.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Huntsville (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181690
Title:
Edgewood Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Ala.) Pride worship video, 2021.
Description:
Worship service for More Light Sunday at Edgewood Presbyterian Church, June 6, 2021.
Creator:
Edgewood Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Ala.) (creator)
Subject names:
Edgewood Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Gay pride celebrations.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179797
Title:
Let Justice Flow Like Water: Many Streams, One River (1998)
Description:
Program of racial justice leadership development conference, Cullman, Alabama, 1998. Featuring Inez Fleming, Nibs Stroupe.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services. (creator)
Subject names:
Stroupe, Gibson P., 1946-
Topics:
Racism--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179063
Title:
God bless - whom? :
Description:
Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Goode, Richard. (narrator), Carter, Nancy. (director)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Alabama.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116487
Title:
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963.
Description:
Protestant Council of the City of New York panel discussion with James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dr. Thomas C. Kilgore, Jr., focusing on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963. A program in the television series: Our Protestant heritage.
Subject names:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham., 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)--History--Bombardment--Sept. 15, 1963.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71692
Title:
They Want to March.
Description:
They Want to March.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Alabama.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8620
Title:
Clergymen in Forefront of March.
Description:
Clergymen in Forefront of March.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Alabama.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8616
Title:
Clergymen Continue Selma Protest.
Description:
Clergymen Continue Selma Protest.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Selma (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8602
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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