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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:
Kagawa Archives and Resource Center.
Description:
Text transcribed from computer-translated caption: Toyohiko Kagawa Memorial Matsuzawa Museum Memorial Chapel Stained Glass (painted by Toyohiko Kagawa) Produced by Otsuka Kogeisha.
Creator:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan. (publisher)
Subject names:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan.
Topics:
Church buildings--Japan--Tokyo., Stained glass windows--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348017
Title:
Kagawa Archives and Resource Center.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Front of Toyohiko Kagawa Memorial Matsuzawa Museum. Produced by Otsuka Kogeisha.
Creator:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan. (publisher)
Subject names:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan.
Topics:
Church buildings--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348015
Title:
Kagawa Archives and Resource Center.
Description:
Text transcribed from computer-translated caption: Front of Toyohiko Kagawa Memorial Matsuzawa Museum Memorial Chapel. Produced by Otsuka Kogeisha.
Creator:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan. (publisher)
Subject names:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan.
Topics:
Church buildings--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348014
Title:
Toyohiko Kagawa.
Description:
Text transcribed from computer-translated caption: Portrait of Toyohiko Kagawa. Painted by Misumi Nagao.
Creator:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan. (publisher), Nagao, Misumi (artist)
Subject names:
Kagawa, Toyohiko, 1888-1960., Kagawa, Toyohiko, 1888-1960--Portraits.
Topics:
Pacifists--Japan., Labor leaders--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348013
Title:
Kagawa Archives and Resource Center.
Description:
Text transcribed from computer- translated caption: Toyohiko Kagawa Memorial Matsuzawa Museum Interior of the Memorial Chapel.
Creator:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan. (publisher)
Subject names:
Kagawa Toyohiko Kinen Matsuzawa Shiryōkan.
Topics:
Church buildings--Japan--Tokyo.
Geographic subjects:
Tokyo (Japan), Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348012
Title:
I hope they don't bomb my lily pad : peacemaking, a child's view, about 1982.
Description:
Producer, W. Ben Lane; music, John Denver; reading, Mike Maus; art, children of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Children's drawings, Bible readings, and the contemporary song, "I want to live," present a child's view of peace.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. (creator)
Topics:
Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity., Peace--Moral and ethical aspects.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348007
Title:
New York City Gay Pride Parade, 1982.
Description:
PLGC Banner. NYC Gay Pride Parade, 1982.
Subject names:
Sindt, David, 1940-1986--Archives., Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns.
Topics:
Gay pride parades--New York (State)--New York., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153425
Title:
New York City Gay Pride Parade, 1982.
Description:
PLGC Banner. NYC Gay Pride Parade, 1982.
Subject names:
Sindt, David, 1940-1986--Archives., Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns.
Topics:
Gay pride parades--New York (State)--New York., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153424
Title:
Homophobia
Description:
Church & Society, Vol. 73, No. 2, November/December 1982. The theme, "Homophobia: The Overlooked Sin," is in response to the policy statement regarding homosexuality adopted at the 190th General Assembly of the UPCUSA in 1978. Features an introduction by Esther C. Stine. Also includes an index of More Light Congregations in the UPCUSA and statements from some of those congregations.
Subject names:
Stine, Esther C., Presbyterians United for Biblical Concerns (U.S.)
Topics:
Homophobia--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:144345
Title:
Gayraud Wilmore interviewed by J. Oscar McCloud, 1982.
Description:
Oral history recorded May 20, 1982 in Rochester, N.Y.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topics:
African Americans--Civil rights., Segregation in education--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133228
Title:
Gayraud Wilmore interviewed by J. Oscar McCloud, 1982.
Description:
Oral history recorded May 20, 1982 in Rochester, N.Y.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Forman, James, 1928-2005., National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Topics:
African Americans--Civil rights., African American clergy, Segregation in education--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133227
Title:
Palestinians mourning dead, Beirut, Lebanon.
Description:
Palestinians mourning dead wrapped in blankets.
Topics:
Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Lebanon--Beirut., Lebanon--History--Israeli intervention, 1982-1985., Missions--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129640
Title:
Cars destroyed by Israeli tanks, Beirut, Lebanon.
Description:
Gone under Israeli tanks--Wardieh Area, West Beirut. Sept. 82.
Topics:
Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Lebanon--History--Israeli intervention, 1982-1985.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129639
Title:
"Place Des Martyres" in Downtown Beirut.
Description:
Statue of Lebanese Independence in central square of Downtown Beirut ("The Bourj" or Place de Cannon). Sept. '82.
Subject names:
Sāḥat al-Shuhadāʾ (Beirut, Lebanon)
Topics:
Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Lebanon--History--Israeli intervention, 1982-1985., Statues--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129638
Title:
The church mosaic.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116523
Title:
A voice from South Africa, side 1.
Creator:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946- (speaker), Cunningham, Sarah. (speaker)
Subject names:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1982 : Purdue University)
Topics:
Blacks--South Africa.
Geographic subjects:
South Africa--Social conditions., South Africa--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116463
Title:
The church mosaic, side 2.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116456
Title:
The church mosaic, side 1.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116455
Title:
A voice from South Africa, side 2.
Creator:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946- (speaker), Cunningham, Sarah. (speaker)
Subject names:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1982 : Purdue University)
Topics:
Blacks--South Africa.
Geographic subjects:
South Africa--Social conditions., South Africa--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116453
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 3.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116405

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