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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:
Conversations with Metz Rollins and Will Campbell, Tape 1, Part 1.
Description:
Metz Rollins speaking about the civil rights movement at Ghost Ranch (Abiquiú, New Mexico) on July 19, 1983. Rollins speaks about the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, his time in Tallahassee, Florida (including his arrest for aiding Florida A&M University students in the Tallahassee city bus boycott), his time in Nashville, Tennessee (including his participation in the Nashville sit-ins), and the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Part 1 of 12.
Creator:
Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--United States., African American clergy., African American Presbyterians., Civil rights demonstrations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344307
Title:
Robeson County, N.C. - Eddie Hatcher / Timothy Jacobs - National Public Radio (NPR)
Description:
News program segment by NPR's Donna Carter regarding Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs, two Native American civil rights activists who held hostages at the office of The Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, North Carolina. Hatcher and Jacobs were protesting discrimination against minority communities, specifically Native Americans, in the criminal justice and court systems of Robeson County. Also covered is deputy sheriff Kevin Stone's killing of Jimmy Earl Cummings, a Lumbee Indian man.
Creator:
National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Carter, Donna. (reporter)
Subject names:
Hatcher, Eddie., Jacobs, Timothy., Cummings, Jimmy Earl.
Topics:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--20th century., Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--Robeson County., Police corruption--North Carolina--Robeson County.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286443
Title:
National Public Radio (NPR) - Blakely, Georgia, June 28, 1990.
Description:
News program by NPR's John Burnett regarding Blakely, Georgia's Concerned Black Citizens Committee's federal civil rights suit against the City of Blakely and the Blakely Fire Department. The suit alleges that Blakely fire chief Franklin Brown and two of his firefighters belong to the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Creator:
National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Burnett, John F. (reporter)
Subject names:
Center for Democratic Renewal., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
Topics:
Racism against Black people--United States., White supremacy movements--Georgia., Race discrimination--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286345
Title:
Black Presbyterian Leadership Conference, Board of World Missions, 1970.
Description:
Audio of Board of World Missions meeting, April 15, 1970, with Black Presbyterian Leadership Conference representatives in attendance.
Subject names:
National Black Presbyterian Caucus., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138684
Title:
New directions in race relations, 1960s.
Description:
Gayraud Wilmore and Metz Rollins interviewed by Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards for an ADL radio forum, 1960s.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (interviewee), Bernards, Solomon S., 1914-2004. (interviewer)
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133242
Title:
Profile of a riot.
Description:
Interviews and commentary about the Watts Riot. Sponsored by the Commission on Religion and Race, UPCUSA.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116536
Title:
Black manifesto, May 15, 1969.
Description:
Presentation of UPCUSA General Council to the General Assembly by Eliezer Risco, Obed Lopez, Gayraud Wilmore, James Forman, Metz Rollins, and Edler G. Hawkins to the 181st General Assembly, May 15, 1969, on Forman's Black Manifesto and racial reconciliation.
Creator:
Risco, Eliezer. (speaker), Lopez, Obed. (speaker), Wilmore, Gayraud S. (speaker), Forman, James, 1928-2005. (speaker), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (speaker), Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (speaker)
Subject names:
Forman, James, 1928-2005., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Texas)
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116533
Title:
Interviews on the Palestinian question, tape 1, 1964.
Description:
Interviews with Arab Christian Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, recorded May 8, 1964, in Jerusalem. Includes Najib Khoury, secretary for the Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem; Herbert Schwartz, director of the Mennonite Central Committee in Jordan; William Alonzo, clerk, Bank of the Middle East. Notes indicate interviews are "radio programs for John Groller." Groller was director of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Creator:
Carmichael, H. Kenn (Herbert Kenneth), 1908- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Topics:
Jewish-Arab relations., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Interviews.
Geographic subjects:
Arab countries--History--20th century., Israel., Jordan., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116526
Title:
The Church in independent Africa today, about 1968.
Description:
Produced by Gunter Kaiser for Zambia Broadcasting Services. Includes hymns, worship in English, Bemba, Lozi, and Tonga. Includes speech by Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia.
Creator:
Kaunda, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1924- (speaker)
Subject names:
Kaunda, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1924-, Kaiser, Günter.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Africa--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Africa--Religion.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116525
Title:
The church mosaic.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116523
Title:
Military chaplains, July 16, 1972.
Description:
Produced by the WRC-TV Community Affairs Department in association with the National Presbyterian Center and the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Guests of Dr. Lowell R. Ditzen, host, include: Rear Admiral Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.; Chaplain, Colonel Simon H. Scott, Jr.; Rev. A. Ray Appelquist.
Creator:
Ditzen, Lowell Russell, 1913-1987. (speaker), Hutcheson, Richard G., 1921-2012. (speaker), Scott, Simon H. (speaker), Appelquist, A. Ray. (speaker)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Council of Churches of Greater Washington (D.C.), WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Military chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116517
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake statement on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 23, 1963.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Subject names:
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116510
Title:
Cuban refugees at Newark Airport, 1962.
Description:
Radio broadcast by Good News Radio on the arrival of Cuban refugees, resettled in Newark from Miami in 1962. Includes brief interviews with refugees deplaning. Concludes with remarks by Eugene Carson Blake.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Topics:
Cubans--United States., Refugees--Cuba.
Geographic subjects:
Newark (N.J.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116502
Title:
Profile of a riot, side 1.
Description:
Interviews and commentary about the Watts Riot. Sponsored by the Commission on Religion and Race, UPCUSA.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topics:
Riots--California--Los Angeles., Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116501
Title:
Interviews on the Palestinian question, 1964, part 2.
Description:
Interviews with Arab Christian Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, recorded May 8, 1964, in Jerusalem. Includes Najib Khoury, secretary for the Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem; Herbert Schwartz, director of the Mennonite Central Committee in Jordan; William Alonzo, clerk, Bank of the Middle East. Notes indicate interviews are "radio programs for John Groller." Groller was director of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Creator:
Carmichael, H. Kenn (Herbert Kenneth), 1908- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Topics:
Jewish-Arab relations., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Interviews.
Geographic subjects:
Palestine., Arab countries--History--20th century., Israel., Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116495
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake, "The Church and Communism," May 9, 1961.
Description:
Eugene Carson Blake speaking at a meeting of the Los Angeles Presbytery, Los Angeles, California. Continues with installation of moderator of the UPCUSA General Assembly [possibly Paul McKelvey, 1961].
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Los Angeles.
Topics:
Communism and Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116494
Title:
Profile of a riot, side 2.
Description:
Interviews and commentary about the Watts Riot. Sponsored by the Commission on Religion and Race, UPCUSA.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topics:
Riots--California--Los Angeles., Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116492
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:
Board of National Missions miners hospitals discussions, April 1963.
Description:
Miners Memorial Hospitals - Board of National Missions semi-annual meeting in New York, 1963 late April.
Creator:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church and social problems--United States.
Geographic subjects:
West Virginia--Hospitals--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116482
Title:
Board of National Missions miners hospitals discussions, April 1963, tape 6.
Description:
Miners Memorial Hospitals - Board of National Missions semi-annual meeting in New York, 1963 late April.
Creator:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church and social problems--United States.
Geographic subjects:
West Virginia--Hospitals--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116479

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