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:
On Their Behalf
Description:
Pamphlet produced by the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program of the General Assembly Council.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Peacemaking Program--Archives., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.
Topics:
Land mines., Land mine victims.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348035
Title:
More Light Churches Network.
Description:
Revised pamphlet (October 27, 1994) describing More Light churches. Includes a letter (circa December 1995) from Lisa Larges to Ralph Carter with Carter's name in braille.
Creator:
Larges, Lisa. (author), Carter, Ralph C. (Ralph Campbell) (addressee)
Subject names:
Carter, Ralph C. (Ralph Campbell)--Archives., More Light Churches Network., Larges, Lisa., Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns.
Topics:
Gay clergy--United States., Presbyterian gays--United States., Blind women--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:346590
Title:
How to Help Japanese American Student Relocation.
Description:
Informational pamphlet published by the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council. The objective of the NJSRC was to assist federally incarcerated Japanese American students in continuing their education.
Subject names:
National Japanese American Student Relocation Council., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Division of Higher Education., American Friends Service Committee.
Topics:
Japanese American college students--History--20th century., Japanese Americans--Education (Higher)--History--20th century., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343578
Title:
Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice.
Description:
Pamphlet published by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Program Agency.
Topics:
Racial justice., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Legal aid., Discrimination in justice administration.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286330
Title:
Background Statement and Resolution on Racially Motivated Violence Against Asians in America.
Description:
Adopted by the 197th General Assembly after the rise in racially motivated violence against Asians in the United States.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (197th : 1985 : Indianapolis, Ind.)
Topics:
Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Racism against Asians--United States., Hate crimes--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286253
Title:
The Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice.
Description:
Pamphlet published by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Racial Ethnic Ministry Unit.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Racial Ethnic Ministry Unit.
Topics:
Racial justice., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century., Legal aid.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286248
Title:
The Church and Draft Information
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284902
Title:
To Be a Conscientious Objector.
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284884
Title:
Attacks on African American Churches
Description:
A handbook for arson investigations. Prepared and published by the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Creator:
Ratner, Margaret. (author), Scott-McLaughlin, Elfrida. (author)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Archives., Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.), Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995., Jones, Mac Charles, 1950-1997.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179314
Title:
National Council of Churches Campaign Against the Burning of Black Churches.
Description:
Promotional pamphlet for the National Council of Churches Campaign Against the Burning of Black Churches, created in response to the rise in attacks by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179229
Title:
National Council of Churches Campaign Against the Burning of Black Churches.
Description:
Promotional pamphlet for the National Council of Churches Campaign Against the Burning of Black Churches, created in response to the rise in attacks by white supremacists.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179223
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:
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

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