Social and political issues and activism

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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:
Pope renews plea for nuclear ban.
Description:
Pope Paul VI told a general audience that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was an "outrage against civilization" and renewed his plea to all nations to ban nuclear weapons.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., VI, Paul, Pope, 1897-1978.
Topics:
Nuclear disarmament., Antinuclear movement.
Geographic subjects:
Castel Gandolfo (Italy)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150168
Title:
Violence at Paris demonstration.
Description:
Helmeted policemen club fallen demonstrators during a brief but violent incident at the Place d'Italie, on the Paris Left Bank, Saturday near the end of a demonstration called for to support the anti-nuclear movement of Brittany against the construction of a nuclear plant at Plogoff. Some 2,000 attended the demonstration. Two demonstrators and three policemen were injured during the incident.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Antinuclear movement--France--Paris., Nuclear power plants--France--Plogoff., Demonstrations--France--Paris., Police--France--Paris., Police and mass media--France--Paris.
Geographic subjects:
Paris (France), Plogoff (France)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150156
Title:
Church and mosque damaged by bombs.
Description:
The Mount Vernon Baptist church is littered with debris after a 2:30AM bomb blast caused extensive damage to the church. A block away, the Muhammed Muslim Mosque was also bombed at the same time. No one was injured.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Baptist Convention.
Topics:
Bombings--New York (State)--Rochester., Buildings--Blast effects--New York (State)--Rochester., Baptist church buildings--New York (State)--Rochester., Mosques--New York (State)--Rochester.
Geographic subjects:
Rochester (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150147
Title:
Young Vietnam survivor.
Description:
A frightened child -- his slain mother by his side -- pleads for help as he looks up at a U.S. marine in a bomb shelter of a South Vietnamese village.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualties., Children of war casualties--Vietnam.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150132
Title:
Castro meets Cardinal.
Description:
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro is greeted by Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez of Santiago during the Cuban leader's recent visit to Chile.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Santiago (Chile). Archbishop (1961-1983 : Silva Henríquez), Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016., Silva Henríquez, Raúl
Topics:
Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects:
Santiago (Chile), Cuba--Foreign relations--1959-1990.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150099
Title:
Red China in Security Council.
Description:
Communist Chinese delegates adjust their earphones as they are seated in the United Nations Security Council for the first time. China is one of the five permanent members of the Council. Huang Hua, China's permanent representative to the U.N., is in the foreground. Immediately behind him are delegates Tang Ming-chao (left) and Chen Chu. Others are unidentified.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations. Security Council., Huang, Hua, 1913-2010., Tang, Ming-chao., Chen, Chu.
Topics:
Communism--China., Communist countries--Foreign relations--China.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), China--Foreign relations--1949-1976., China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150048
Title:
Arrested.
Description:
Father James Groppi (center), the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Groppi, James, 1930-1985., Davis, Rennie.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150031
Title:
Town raises flag a day for U.S. hostages.
Description:
Employees of a Hermitage, Pa. cemetery raise another flag recently, to the collection marking the days that the U.S. hostages are held in Iran.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981., Flags--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Hermitage (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150022
Title:
Israeli farmers protest government agriculture policies.
Description:
A group of Israeli farmers demonstrate outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, holding signs that read: "There Is No Nation Without Its Farmers" and "Dairy, Orchard, Chicken Coop -- Going Out of Business."
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mishkan ha-Keneset (Jerusalem)
Topics:
Agriculture--Israel., Agriculture and politics--Israel., Farmers--Israel.
Geographic subjects:
Israel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150012
Title:
Feathers fly as demonstrators scuffle during draft protest.
Description:
Feathers from a demonstrator's coat fly as anti-draft and counter protestors scuffle at the end of a rally against the resumption of registration.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Draft--Washington (D.C.), Anti-war demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149984
Title:
Rabbi Kahane and five others arrested during anti-Carter protest.
Description:
Policemen carry away Jewish Defense League (JDL) Leader Rabbi Meir Kahane outside New York's Harmonie Club where Robert S. Strauss, campaign chairman for President Carter, and Sol M. Linowitz, the Administration's Special Ambassador to the Middle East, were explaining to 100 Jewish leaders U.S. actions involving a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jewish Defense League., Harmonie Club of the City of New York., Kahane, Meir., Strauss, Robert S., Linowitz, Sol M., 1913-2005.
Topics:
Arab-Israeli conflict, 1967-1973., Zionism--New York (State)--New York., Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Arrest--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149975
Title:
Peace mission in Belfast.
Description:
The Rev. Arthur Blessitt, the Baptist minister who is a leader of the Jesus People movement in the U.S., carries a wooden cross and passes out "Smile, Jesus Loves you" stickers to people as he walks on a peace mission through the streets of Belfast.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blessitt, Arthur.
Topics:
Jesus People--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Evangelists--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Crosses.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149950
Title:
Controversial photo.
Description:
The Southern Baptist Sunday School Board recalled an entire press run -- over 160,000 copies -- of an education quarterly before distribution in order to replace this photograph and the article it illustrated. Officials of the Board considered the article, "A Ministry of Reconciliation" by Mrs. Twyla Wright of Arizona, and the photo "potentially inflammatory" and directed a "revision" of the Jan.-March issue of "Becoming," along with a corresponding teachers' guide.
Creator:
Engh, Rohn. (photographer), Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Southern Baptist Convention. Sunday School Board.
Topics:
Product recall--Tennessee--Nashville., Race relations--Religious aspects--Baptists., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Nashville (Tenn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149911
Title:
Princess has happy audience.
Description:
Princess Margaret speaks to four clergymen at a community house.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church of England--Clergy., Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002., Windsor, House of.
Topics:
Clergy--England--London., Princesses--England--London., Princesses--Religious life.
Geographic subjects:
London (England)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149899
Title:
Demonstration at Air Force Academy.
Description:
Police carry off a demonstrator identified as Barbara Minor of Denver after breaking up an anti-air war protest during chapel services at the Air Force Academy.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States Air Force Academy., Clergy and Laymen Concerned (U.S.), Minor, Barbara.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--Colorado., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
Geographic subjects:
El Paso County (Colo.), Cambodia--History--Civil War, 1970-1975.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149868
Title:
Defendants at pre-trial hearing.
Description:
Seven of the eight defendants in an alleged plot to kidnap Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger and blow up heating equipment in federal buildings stand outside federal court in Harrisburg.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kissinger, Henry, -1923., Wenderoth, Joe., Ahmad, Eqbal., McLaughlin, Neil., Glick, John T., Scoblick, Anthony., McAlister, Elizabeth., Scoblick, Mary Cain., Berrigan, Philip.
Topics:
Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972., Political crimes and offenses--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg., Anti-war demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg.
Geographic subjects:
Harrisburg (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149823
Title:
Afghan rebels hold maneuvers in remote area.
Description:
Families who came out to watch, chat, with rebel Afghan tribesmen of various factions during a break in maneuver on outskirts of small village near Herat. The factions got together to practice attacks on horseback and afoot in the village in Northeast Afghanistan.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Guerrillas--Afghanistan--Herat., Guerrilla warfare--Afghanistan--Herat.
Geographic subjects:
Herat (Afghanistan), Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149790
Title:
Royal charm at work.
Description:
Further information regarding a photo of Princess Margaret with four clergymen.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church of England--Clergy., Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002., Windsor, House of.
Topics:
Clergy--England--London., Princesses--England--London., Princesses--Religious life.
Geographic subjects:
London (England)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149666
Title:
May Day turns to violence in Charleston.
Description:
A young woman demonstrator lies unconscious on a downtown street Thursday after members of the Revolutionary Communist Party clashed with anti-rally protestors during a May Day demonstration. The woman, identified by hospital officials as Dora Dunn of Beckley, was not seriously injured.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Revolutionary Communist Party, USA., Dunn, Dora.
Topics:
Demonstrations--West Virginia--Charleston., May Day--West Virginia--Charleston., Communism--West Virginia--Charleston.
Geographic subjects:
Charleston (W. Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148652
Title:
Charred bodies of rescue victims displayed in Iran.
Description:
Ayatollah Sadiq Khalkhali watches as Iranian militants at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran uncover the body of one of the 8 American servicemen reportedly killed during the aborted raid to rescue U.S. hostages.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Armed Forces., United States. Army. Delta Force., Khalkhālī, Ṣādiq.
Topics:
Operation Eagle Claw, Iran, 1980., Political kidnapping--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148643

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