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:
Funeral for In-Ho Oh at Old Pine Street Church, 1958.
Description:
Funeral for In-Ho Oh, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student from Korea who was murdered.
Subject names:
Oh, In-Ho, 1932-1958., Third and Scots Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), University of Pennsylvania.
Topics:
Koreans--Pennsylvania--Philadephia., Murder--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Korean students--Violence against--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Funeral service--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353101
Title:
Dean Lewis at Program Agency Board.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021.
Topics:
Political activists--United States., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344187
Title:
Cedar Park Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020.
Creator:
Cedar Park Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020 (creator)
Subject names:
Cedar Park Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pentecost worship, 2020
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181724
Title:
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Worship in wake of Philadelphia police murder of Walter Wallace Jr.
Creator:
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181722
Title:
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Creator:
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181696
Title:
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) worship, 2020.
Description:
Rev. John Wilkinson on the Philadelphia police murder of Walter Wallace Jr.
Creator:
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator), Wilkinson, John. (speaker)
Subject names:
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181661
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:
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:
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:
The Killing of Philadelphia General Hospital.
Description:
Manuscript written by Rev. Robert Lee Maffett, Sr., about the closure of Philadelphia General Hospital in 1977.
Creator:
Maffett, Robert Lee, 1920-2011. (author)
Subject names:
Maffett, Robert Lee, 1920-2011--Archives., Philadelphia General Hospital.
Topics:
Hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Hospital closures--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Government aid to hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175932
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:
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
Title:
Sleep-in demonstrators under Liberty Bell.
Description:
Sleep-in demonstrators under Liberty Bell.
Creator:
Riley, G. (creator)
Subject names:
Liberty Bell Center (Philadelphia, Pa.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century., Liberty Bell.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7274
Title:
Union Avenue, Philadelphia.
Description:
[Union Avenue, Philadelphia, during the U.S. Sanitary's Commision's Great Central Fair.]
Creator:
R. Newell (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7039
Title:
Maggie Kuhn pins Mayor Rizzo.
Description:
Maggie "pins" Mayor Rizzo May 4, 1975 at ceremony honoring Vince Giglia for his work as advocate of persons with learning problems.
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie., Rizzo, Frank, 1920-1991., Gray Panthers.
Topics:
Social reformers--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6942

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