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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:
Letter from Rev. Thomas Kilgore to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, July 30, 1963.
Description:
Letter written by Rev. Thomas Kilgore of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the UPCUSA. In the letter, Rev. Kilgore urgently asks for financial support for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Creator:
Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998. (author), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (addressee)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345245
Title:
Rev. Bruce William Klunder memorial address by Eugene Carson Blake.
Description:
Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.
Topics:
Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344177
Title:
Arrest of Eugene Carson Blake, 1963.
Description:
On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310
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:
Eugene Carson Blake interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116447
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 3.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116420
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 2.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116417
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 1.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Hartford (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116415
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 3.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116405
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 2.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116404
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 6.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116397
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 4.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116396
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 1.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116394
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 5.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116390
Title:
Letter to Eugene Carson Blake from President John F. Kennedy, April 12, 1960.
Description:
Letter to Rev. Eugene Carson Blake from President John F. Kennedy concerning an appointment, April 12, 1960.
Creator:
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. (author)
Subject names:
United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:79883

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