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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:
Presbyterians and the Draft.
Description:
Written by Ralph D. Nyland, chairman of the Draft Counseling Committee at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in DeWitt, New York.
Creator:
Nyland, Ralph D. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors., Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church (De Witt, N.Y.)
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284897
Title:
To Be a Conscientious Objector.
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284884
Title:
Letter from Gwen Patton Woods to L. William Yolton, February 16, 1970.
Description:
Letter addressed to Rev. L. William Yolton, Secretary of the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War, written by Gwen Patton Woods of the National Association of Black Students.
Creator:
Patton, Gwendolyn M., 1943- (author), Yolton, L. William (Leroy William), 1930- (addressee)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284880
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Council on Church and Race exhibit.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161378
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Chairman Russell W. Durler, at the podium and members of the subcommittee on Sexuality and the Human Condition.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Durler, Russell W.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Sexual orientation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161376
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Father Luis Haramillo reports on La Nueva Raza (the Chicano movement.)
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Jaramillo, Luis.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Chicano movement., Mexican American clergy., Mexican American political activists.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161366
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Senior Steve Larson, Lewis and Clark College, who addressed the General Assembly breakfast on the Environmental Crisis.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Lewis and Clark Community College., Larson, Steve.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Students--Political activity., Environmentalism--Religious aspects--Christianity., Christian college students.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161358
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Representatives of Women's Liberation.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Women's Liberation Movement (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Women political activists., Feminism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161352
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Mr. Herman Holmes, Acting Director, National Black Economic Development Conference.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), National Black Economic Development Conference., Holmes, Herman.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., African American civil rights workers., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161351
Title:
Gayraud Wilmore and Jovelino Rumos.
Description:
Gayraud Wilmore and Jovelino Rumos, former executives of the Council on Church and Race, PCUSA.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921- (creator)
Subject names:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921---Archives., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-, Rumos, Jovelino.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160507
Title:
Sexuality and the human community.
Description:
Contains a report produced by a task force appointed by the Council on Church and Society of the United Presbyterian Church to study the Christian concept of sexuality in the human community. The final report was forwarded to the 182nd General Assembly (1970) which recommended its conclusions to the churches for study and appropriate action. Includes bibliographical references.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Sexuality and the Human Community.
Topics:
Sex--Christianity.--Religious aspects, Sexual ethics.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150262
Title:
Jim Forman, Gayraud Wilmore, and J. Oscar McCloud, ca. 1970.
Subject names:
McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936---Archives., Forman, James, 1928-2005., Wilmore, Gayraud S.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States--20th century., African American Presbyterians--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145329
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:
Portrait of Maggie Kuhn.
Description:
Portrait of Maggie Kuhn.
Creator:
Bryan, Julie Jensen. (photographer)
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995.--Portraits., Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995--Archives.
Topics:
Women social reformers--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10123
Title:
Celebration for the environment.
Description:
Celebration for the environment.
Creator:
Goodwin, John C. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Earth Day.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7221
Title:
A time to hate and a time to love.
Description:
Trina Faulus, Elise Adjali, Unita Blackwell photographed with a delegate. Wednesday July 8, 1970: A time to hate and a time to love.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Women., Blackwell, Unita, 1933-, Adjali, Elise.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7083
Title:
Margaret E. Kuhn.
Description:
Margaret E. Kuhn.
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie.
Topics:
Social reformers--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6947

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