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:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Two men and a woman sit around a table at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82975
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Woman caring for baby at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82974
Title:
Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8874
Title:
Cover of Presbyterian Life, May 15, 1959.
Description:
[Cover of Presbyterian Life, May 15, 1959.]
Subject names:
East Harlem Protestant Parish (New York, N.Y.), Presbyterian Church of the Ascension (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Heroin abuse--United States., City churches--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8867
Title:
Policeman arresting youth, Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8739
Title:
Burning car, Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8662
Title:
Watts Rebellion
Description:
[Watts riots.]
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8653
Title:
Police chasing men, Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8648
Title:
Watts Rebellion
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8612
Title:
Sunday morning after riots in Watts.
Description:
Sunday morning after riots in Watts: National Guardsman escorts church-bound residents through debris-strewn streets. [From Presbyterian Life, Sept. 15, 1965, p. 6.]
Topics:
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965., Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8611
Title:
Dr. Henry Steel Commager.
Description:
Dr. Henry Steel Commager, Professor of American History at Amherst, speaks on U.S. policy in Vietnam in an address to the U.S. Conference on Church and Society, Detroit, 1967.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998., United States Conference on Church and Society (1967 : Detroit, Mich.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.), United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8166
Title:
Presbyterians at Pittsburgh 1958.
Description:
Dr. Charles Leber and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Overseas Breakfast.
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915-2002. (photographer), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dept. of Stewardship and Promotion. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh, Pa.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Leber, Charles T. (Charles Tudor), 1924-
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7419
Title:
Clergymen Demonstrate in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: The almost constant rain in Hattiesburg dampened everything but the spirits of the clergy demonstrators. The four pictured below are (left to right) United Presbyterians Dudley E. Sarfaty, Carl Raymond Smith, John Coventry Smith, and Robert J. Stone.
Subject names:
Hattiesburg Ministers Project., Smith, Carl R., Sarfaty, Dudley E., Smith, John Coventry, 1903-, Stone, Robert John, 1919-
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7337
Title:
Assembly delegates.
Description:
Assembly delegates Ed Smith, Rochester, N.Y.; Virginia Nebelsick, Emery, S.D., and Kyung Ho Lee of Seoul, South Korea, read news of war in Kyung's homeland.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7336
Title:
Now advances someday.
Description:
[Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene Carson Blake, and others bow their heads in prayer during the March on Washington. From Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 9].
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7327
Title:
Special assembly session on academic freedom.
Description:
In special assembly session on academic freedom, Californian Charles Hedges states his views. Other subjects discussed were: segregation, marriage, and United Nations.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7298
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake at demonstration.
Description:
Blake, in straw hat, is preceded by William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, and followed by Roman Catholic Father Joseph Connolly, as group moves in on Gwynn Oak Park to challenge segregation. [From Presbyterian Life, August 1, 1963, p. 25.]
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Woodlawn--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak Park (Woodlawn, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7105
Title:
Presbyterians at Pittsburgh 1958.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the Overseas Breakfast in Hotel Webster Hall.
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915- (photographer), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dept. of Stewardship and Promotion. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh, Pa.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7045
Title:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race exhibit.
Description:
[United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race exhibit.]
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7002
Title:
Prisoners of War.
Description:
Reciting Scripture.
Creator:
Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984. (photographer)
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Prisoners of war--South Korea., Prisoner-of-war camps--South Korea., Church work with prisoners of war--South Korea.
Geographic subjects:
South Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6984

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