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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:
Egbert W. Smith files related to the Korean Independence Movement, 1919.
Description:
Includes letters from Korea regarding Korean Independence Movement.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea., Missions--Korea., Civilians in war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345360
Title:
Egbert W. Smith files related to the Korean Independence Movement, 1919.
Description:
Includes Presbyterian Church in Canada statement on Korean situation.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea., Missions--Korea., Civilians in war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345344
Title:
Egbert W. Smith files related to the Korean Independence Movement, 1919.
Description:
Includes Korean and missionary statements on Korean situation.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea., Missions--Korea., Civilians in war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea., Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345297
Title:
A full and complete account of the late awful riots in Philadelphia
Description:
Second sequence has caption title: Tremendous riots in Southwark.
Topics:
Riots--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Anti-Catholicism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Nativism.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177284
Title:
A thanksgiving sermon, preached January 1, 1808, in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
Description:
By Absalom Jones, Rector of the said church.
Creator:
Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818. (author)
Subject names:
St. Thomas' Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slave trade--United States--19th century., Sermons, American.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177233
Title:
Out of the House of Bondage
Description:
By the author of Friendly counsels for freedmen, etc.
Creator:
Waterbury, J. B. (Jared Bell), 1799-1876. (author)
Topics:
Freedmen., Freedmen--Conduct of life., Slavery--United States--19th century., Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery in the Bible., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177196
Title:
Report on the Condition of the Freedmen of the Mississippi
Description:
By James E. Yeatman, President of the Commission.
Creator:
Yeatman, James E., 1818-1901. (author)
Subject names:
Western Sanitary Commission.
Topics:
Freedmen--Mississippi., Slaves--Emancipation--Mississippi., Slavery--United States--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Mississippi.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176503
Title:
Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement.
Description:
Signed on behalf of the committee by Robert Purvis, Chairman.
Creator:
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898. (author)
Topics:
African Americans--Suffrage.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176484
Title:
Colonization and Abolition Contrasted.
Creator:
Colton, Calvin, 1789-1857. (author)
Subject names:
American Colonization Society.
Topics:
Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., African Americans--Colonization--Africa.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176467
Title:
Debate at the Lane Seminary, Cincinnati
Description:
The account of the debate is in the form of a letter from H. B. Stanton.
Creator:
Thome, James A. (James Armstrong), 1813-1873. (author), Cox, Samuel H. (Samuel Hanson), 1793-1880. (author), Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887. (author), Cornish, Samuel E. (Samuel Eli), 1795?-1858. (author)
Subject names:
American Colonization Society., American Anti-Slavery Society., Lane Theological Seminary.
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., African Americans--Colonization--Africa.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176446
Title:
The Character and Influence of Abolitionism
Description:
By Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church.
Creator:
Van Dyke, Henry J. (Henry Jackson), 1822-1891. (author)
Subject names:
First Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery and the church--Presbyterian Church., Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., Sermons, American.
Geographic subjects:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176377
Title:
Harper's Ferry … Its Lessons
Description:
By Rev. Daniel Rice.
Creator:
Rice, Daniel, 1816-1889. (author)
Subject names:
Second Presbyterian Church (Lafayette, Ind.), Brown, John, 1800-1859., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School)
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery and the church--Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (New School), Slavery and the church--Presbyterian Church., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., Slavery--United States--19th century., Sermons, American.
Geographic subjects:
Lafayette (Ind.), Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859--Sermons.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176353
Title:
Position of the Southern Church in Relation to Slavery
Description:
With an introduction by a constitutional Presbyterian.
Creator:
Ross, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), 1796-1883. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S., Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870.
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery and the church--Presbyterian Church in the U.S., Slavery--United States--19th century., Slavery and the church--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Southern States--Church history--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176324
Title:
The Connexion of Temperance with Republican Freedom
Description:
Also, a parody of the Declaration of Independence, by E. D. Tarr, and the toasts, &c., and letters from a number of eminent men, read on the occasion.
Creator:
Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870. (author), Tarr, Elihu D. (Elihu Duplessis), -1851 (author)
Subject names:
Mechanics and Working Men's Temperance Society (Philadelphia, Pa.), United States. Declaration of Independence.
Topics:
Fourth of July orations., Temperance--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Temperance--Societies, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176291
Title:
An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon Slave-keeping.
Creator:
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813. (author), Albert Oldach & Son. (binder)
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:174024
Title:
Address of the Executive Committee of the Young Men's Temperance Society to the Young Men of Philadelphia.
Description:
Contains the constitution of the society, an account of the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1828, and the address, signed by Mathew Newkirk, Chairman.
Creator:
Young Men's Temperance Society (Philadelphia, Pa.). Executive Committee. (creator)
Subject names:
Young Men's Temperance Society (Philadelphia, Pa.), Newkirk, Matthew, 1794-1868.
Topics:
Temperance--Societies, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160266
Title:
The temperance pledge.
Creator:
Collier, Francis J. (Francis James), 1838-1918. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance.
Topics:
Temperance--Societies, etc., Temperance in literature.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160261
Title:
Address to the citizens of Phila. and vicinity :
Description:
Written by John Marsh, Corresponding Secretary of the American Temperance Union.
Creator:
Marsh, John, 1788-1868. (author), McWilliams, D. (printer)
Subject names:
American Temperance Union.
Topics:
Temperance--Societies, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160255
Title:
An appeal to conscience on the subject of temperance.
Description:
By Rev. Levi Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Levi, 1802-1882. (author), Geddes, William F. (printer)
Topics:
Temperance.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160242
Title:
Constitution of the Union Benevolent Association and report explanatory of its object :
Creator:
Harding, Jesper, 1799-1865. (printer)
Subject names:
Union Benevolent Association., Union Benevolent Association. Ladies' Branch.
Topics:
Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Women in charitable work--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160229

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