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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:
Eugene Callender statements and panel discussion on work in Harlem, 6 August 1967, side 2.
Description:
Introductory statements and panel discussion with Eugene Callender and young men involved in his evangelistic and social work among youth in Harlem. Recorded for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) Department of Television Radio and Audio-Visuals (TRAV), August 6, 1967.
Creator:
Callender, Eugene. (speaker)
Subject names:
Callender, Eugene., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. TRAV.
Topics:
Evangelistic work--New York (state)--New York., Social work with African American children--New York (state)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116375
Title:
A discourse, delivered in the Presbyterian Church in Wall-Street, March 23, 1806
Creator:
Milledoler, Philip, 1775-1852. (author)
Subject names:
Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children., First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York.
Topics:
Charity--Religious aspects., Love--Religious aspects--Christianity., Sermons, American.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82817
Title:
A sermon, delivered, on the 4th of February 1816, for the benefit of a Society of Ladies, instituted for the relief of poor widows with small children.
Creator:
Whelpley, Philip Melancthon, 1794-1824. (author)
Subject names:
Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children.
Topics:
Charities--New York--New York., Sermons, American., Presbyterian Church--Sermons.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82784
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:
Churchmen visiting Russia.
Description:
These nine American Protestant leaders left here March 9 to visit Moscow where they will hold talks with Christian leaders there. Their 10-day trip marks the first phase of a two-way visit that will bring Russian churchmen to this country next June as guests of the National Council of Churches. Shown left to right are: front row, Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal District; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA and president of the National Council; and Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J. (Methodist), an attorney and member of the National Council's General Board. In rear: Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (Methodist), executive director of the National Council's Department of International Affairs; Dr. Herbet Gezork of Newton Center, Mass. (Baptist), president of Andover Newton Theological Seminary; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York (Presbyterian), the National Council's associate general secretary; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; and Paul B. Anderson of New York (Congregational Christian), secretary of the YMCA International Committee.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11056
Title:
Labor Temple girls' class.
Description:
[Labor Temple girls' class; Labor Temple pennant in background.]
Subject names:
Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Unit of City and Industrial Work--Archives.
Topics:
Community centers--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Church work with the working class--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Church work with children--New York (State)--New York--20th century., City missions--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8888
Title:
Cover of Presbyterian Life, May 15, 1959.
Description:
[Cover of Presbyterian Life, May 15, 1959.]
Subject names:
East Harlem Protestant Parish (New York, N.Y.), Presbyterian Church of the Ascension (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Heroin abuse--United States., City churches--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8867
Title:
Labor Temple girls' class.
Description:
[Labor Temple girls' class; poster at left reads "The right to work is the right to live".]
Subject names:
Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Unit of City and Industrial Work--Archives.
Topics:
Community centers--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Church work with the working class--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Church work with children--New York (State)--New York--20th century., City missions--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8825
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:
"Christian Manifesto" protests.
Description:
Christian Manifesto': Fundamentalist minister Dr. Carl McIntire, right, reads part of his "Christian Manifesto" -- seeking $3 billion in reparations from "modernist" churches -- on the steps of New York's Riverside church. Dr. McIntire, 63, head of the International Council of Christian Churches, said his "Christian Manifesto" was an answer to the "Black Manifesto" delivered by black militant James Forman earlier this year.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), Black Economic Development Conference. Black manifesto., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Race relations--Religious Aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4934
Title:
Group at convention.
Description:
National Council Debates Middle East: Dr. Robert S. Bilheimer, executive director of the National Council of Churches' department of international affairs, answers questions on an NCC "Policy on the Middle East" adopted at the Spring session of the General Board in New York. The policy states that the Christians' concern over the troubled Middle East must concentrate on the element of human need without being pro-Arab or pro-Israeli.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4277

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