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:
Afghanistan Rebuilds (2003)
Description:
Promotional video for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Church World Service reconstruction and relief work in Afghanistan, 2003.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Disaster Assistance., Church World Service.
Topics:
International relief--Afghanistan., War relief--Afghanistan.
Geographic subjects:
Afghanistan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179234
Title:
Restorative Justice: Building a Framework for Nonviolent Alternatives to the Violence of Prisons
Description:
Ginny Mackey's July 1989 draft curriculum, written for the Criminal Justice Program of the PC(USA)
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Social Justice and Peacemaking Ministry Unit, Mackey, Virginia
Topics:
Restorative justice., Alternatives to imprisonment., Reparation (Criminal justice)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177086
Title:
Police accountability study guide, 2001
Description:
A prior study guide, Restorative Justice, focused on the victims of violence. From the introduction: "This study/action resource turns our attention to two additional categories of victims: those who are harassed or abused by the very officers who have pledged to protect and defend, andthe protectors and defenders themselves. Our task is to help churches find ways to “nurture a justice-sensitive citizenry” and a law-enforcement system that is both respected by and accountable to the citizenry it serves." Six wpd documents and an image converted to PDF.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Social Justice and Peacemaking Unit
Topics:
Police brutality -- United States., Police-community relations -- United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177050
Title:
Presbyterian Social Witness Policy Compilation
Description:
Compiled by the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. Includes index.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--Doctrines., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Doctrines., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Doctrines., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy.
Topics:
Church and social problems--Presbyterian Church., Church and the world--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176522
Title:
Katie G. Cannon's lecture notes.
Description:
Lecture notes regarding the Syrian Civil War. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Civil war--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Syria--History--Civil War, 2011-.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175562
Title:
Angela Davis debate, 183rd General Assembly, 1971, side A.
Description:
Debate about Angela Davis at the 183rd General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Recorded in Rochester, N.Y., May 1971. Side A.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (183rd : 1971 : Rochester, N.Y.)
Subject names:
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (183rd : 1971 : Rochester, N.Y.)
Topics:
Political activists--United States--20th century., African American intellectuals.--United States--20th century., Imprisonment--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Rochester (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166011
Title:
Red China Celebration in Shanghai.
Description:
Different aspects of parade.
Creator:
LaGamma, Frank. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shanghai., Communism--China--Shanghai., Parades--China--Shanghai.
Geographic subjects:
Shanghai (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161194
Title:
The Proclamation of Korean Independence.
Description:
Issued March 1, 1919 at Seoul, Korea.
Topics:
Independence movements--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--History--Independence movement, 1919.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150674
Title:
Princess has happy audience.
Description:
Princess Margaret speaks to four clergymen at a community house.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150222
Title:
Priest and 18 others arrested during abortion clinic sit-in.
Description:
The Rev. James J. Danis, a Roman Catholic priest of St. Louis, wearing a sweat shirt above, waits in a police patrol wagon after being arrested with 18 others on trespassing charges during a sit-in protest at the Regency Park Gynecological Center.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150220
Title:
Youth present pessimistic views.
Description:
Gabe Pressman (left), a television news commentator for NBC, moderates a panel discussion, questioning five young people on their views of the press, the state of human relations in the U.S., the work of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) and their general outlook on the future. Members of the panel are, from left: Billy Lazore, youngest chief of the Onondaga Indian Nation; Ann Robinson, a Catholic student at St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing; Mark Bruzonsky, a Jewish student at Princeton University; Pamela Barrows, a Protestant who is a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Angelo Nunez, a Puerto Rican student at Columbia University.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150218
Title:
Syrian youth's I.D. card.
Description:
This is the identity card of a 17-year-old Jewish youth who recently escaped from Syria. Diagonally across the front of the card the word "Jew" is written in red ink in Arabic. His photo, name and mother's and father's names have been covered to protect his identity and his family.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150215
Title:
Dramatize plight of refugees.
Description:
Dressed in robes symbolizing death, members of a group called Americans for Bangla Desh carry simulated body bags during a demonstration near the United Nations in New York.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150214
Title:
Leaders at main German church day rally.
Description:
Prominent West German political and religious leaders participated in the main rally of the 12th German Evangelical Church Day Congress (DEKT) in Cologne. Here, from left, are West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; Dr. Kurt Scharf, chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKID), sponsor of the Congress; and Mayor O. Burauen of Cologne.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150212
Title:
Prison chaplains group meets.
Description:
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant prison chaplains meet at the American Correctional Chaplains Association at Iowa State Penitentiary.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150211
Title:
Aiding refugees in Laos.
Description:
On a hill above the refugee village of Phucum in northern Laos, the Rev. Don Scott discusses possibilities for emergency relief with a camp medic. The village, which has 4,200 Meo refugees -- almost all women and children -- has already been moved three times as fighting drew near.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150209
Title:
HIAS helps former North Vietnamese refugee reach U.S.
Description:
Bang Khiet Nghe, holding flowers, a 14-year-old Vietnamese refugee who had escaped to the People's Republic of China (PRC), is shown after her recent arrival in New York. Greeting Bang at John F. Kennedy International Airport are her mother, Ai Link Huynh, her three brothers, and Bruce Leimsidor, of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). HIAS helped bring her to the U.S. -- marking the first time the Jewish migration agency has assisted and received a refugee directly from the PRC.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150203
Title:
Young refugee finds home.
Description:
Hans Czipri, a young refugee from Hungary.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150182
Title:
Mother Teresa.
Description:
Mother Teresa holding a child.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997.
Topics:
Christian women saints., Malnutrition in children--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150171
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

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