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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:
Pickets at the chancery.
Description:
Barry F. Ryan (right), president of the Federation of Catholic Teachers, joins fellow teachers in picketing the New York archdiocese chancery offices during the first day of a lay teacher strike against archdiocesan schools.
Creator:
Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Federation of Catholic Teachers., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New York (N.Y.), Ryan, Barry F.
Topics:
Lay teachers--New York (State)--New York., Picketing--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150162
Title:
LBJ memoirs: religion's role.
Description:
Evangelist Billy Graham (left) and Mr. Johnson bow their heads during a 1964 Presidential prayer breakfast in Washington. In his memoirs, the former President reveals that Mr. Graham acted as an emissary with Richard Nixon during the 1968 election campaign.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topics:
Presidents--United States, Prayer breakfasts--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.), New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150096
Title:
Red China in Security Council.
Description:
Communist Chinese delegates adjust their earphones as they are seated in the United Nations Security Council for the first time. China is one of the five permanent members of the Council. Huang Hua, China's permanent representative to the U.N., is in the foreground. Immediately behind him are delegates Tang Ming-chao (left) and Chen Chu. Others are unidentified.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations. Security Council., Huang, Hua, 1913-2010., Tang, Ming-chao., Chen, Chu.
Topics:
Communism--China., Communist countries--Foreign relations--China.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), China--Foreign relations--1949-1976., China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150048
Title:
LBJ memoirs: religion's role.
Description:
Mr. Johnson shakes hands with the then Republican Presidential candidate, Richard Nixon (right), as former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (left), the Democratic candidate, chats with Cardinal Terence Cooke, Archbishop of New York, at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York in 1968. [The other two photos mentioned in captions can be found in photofile number P-42241]
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Cooke, Terence, 1921-1983.
Topics:
Presidents--United States
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149990
Title:
Rabbi Kahane and five others arrested during anti-Carter protest.
Description:
Policemen carry away Jewish Defense League (JDL) Leader Rabbi Meir Kahane outside New York's Harmonie Club where Robert S. Strauss, campaign chairman for President Carter, and Sol M. Linowitz, the Administration's Special Ambassador to the Middle East, were explaining to 100 Jewish leaders U.S. actions involving a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jewish Defense League., Harmonie Club of the City of New York., Kahane, Meir., Strauss, Robert S., Linowitz, Sol M., 1913-2005.
Topics:
Arab-Israeli conflict, 1967-1973., Zionism--New York (State)--New York., Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Arrest--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149975
Title:
LBJ memoirs: religion's role.
Description:
Mr. Johnson and his daughter, Mrs. Luci Nugent, chat with Father W.W. Schneider of St. Francis Xavier church after attending Mass in Stonewall, Texas, near the LBJ Ranch. At right is a member of the Knights of Columbus who participated in the service. Mrs. Nugent converted to Catholicism during the Johnson Administration and was later married in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. [The other two photos mentioned in captions can be found in photofile number P-42241]
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., Knights of Columbus., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Nugent, Luci Baines Johnson., Schneider, W.W.
Topics:
Presidents--United States, Children of presidents--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Texas., New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149959
Title:
LBJ memoirs: religion's role.
Description:
Pope Paul VI and Mr. Johnson exchange gifts during their 1967 meeting at the Vatican. The former Chief Executive and the Roman Catholic pontiff discussed peace moves in Vietnam during the meeting. In his book, Mr. Johnson describes Pope Paul as "a quiet, serious and sensitive man profoundly dedicated to the cause of world peace."
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., VI, Paul, Pope, 1897-1978.
Topics:
Presidents--United States
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City., New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149941
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.
Creator:
Institute of Human Relations (American Jewish Committee) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Jews--Syria., Antisemitism--Syria., Jews, Syrian., Identification cards--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149914
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.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., HIAS (Agency), John F. Kennedy International Airport., Nghe, Bang Khiet., Huynh, Ai Link., Leimsidor, Bruce.
Topics:
Teenage refugees--New York (State)--New York., Women refugees--New York (State)--New York., Refugee children--New York (State)--New York., Refugees--Press coverage--New York (State)--New York., Vietnamese--New York (State)--New York., Humanitarian assistance--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149887
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.
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., Pressman, Gabe., Bruzonsky, Mark A., Lazore, William., Robinson, Ann., Barrows, Pamela., Nunez, Angelo.
Topics:
Young adults--Political activity--New York (State)--New York., Mass media and young adults--New York (State)--New York., College students--United States., College students--Political activity--New York--New York., Onondaga Indians--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149884
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.
Creator:
Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Americans for Bangla Desh., United Nations.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Refugees--Bangladesh., Refugees--India., Refugee camps--India.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Bangladesh--History--Revolution, 1971.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149862
Title:
Lay teachers picket.
Description:
As their union officials hold eleventh-hour negotiations with officials of the Association of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of New York, teachers picket in front of St. Cecilia's School in Harlem.
Creator:
Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New York (N.Y.)
Topics:
Lay teachers--New York (State)--New York., Picketing--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149820
Title:
Young refugee finds home.
Description:
Hans Czipri, a young refugee from Hungary.
Creator:
Catholic Relief Services. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Relief Services., Czipri, Hans.
Topics:
Refugees--Hungary., Refugee children--Hungary., Catholic Church and world politics., Church work with refugees--Hungary., Church work with refugees--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Hungary.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149802
Title:
HIAS first immigration agency in the United States to receive Indochinese refugee from the Peoples Republic of China, press release.
Creator:
Leyden, Joel. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., HIAS (Agency), Nghe, Bang Khiet., Huynh, Ai Link., Leimsidor, Bruce.
Topics:
Teenage refugees--New York (State)--New York., Women refugees--New York (State)--New York., Refugee children--New York (State)--New York., Refugees--Press coverage--New York (State)--New York., Vietnamese--New York (State)--New York., Humanitarian assistance--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149774
Title:
Youth views gloomy in panel discussion.
Description:
Article written for the Religious News Service.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., National Conference of Christians and Jews., Pressman, Gabe., Bruzonsky, Mark A., Lazore, William., Robinson, Ann., Barrows, Pamela., Nunez, Angelo.
Topics:
Young adults--Political activity--New York (State)--New York., Mass media and young adults--New York (State)--New York., College students--United States., College students--Political activity--New York--New York., Onondaga Indians--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149766
Title:
Dramatize plight of refugees, press release.
Creator:
Minkin, Steve. (author), Americans for Bangla Desh. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Americans for Bangla Desh., United Nations.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Refugees--Bangladesh., Refugees--India., Refugee camps--India.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Bangladesh--History--Revolution, 1971.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149670
Title:
Rally for Soviet Jews reflected how situation changed in a year.
Description:
Article written by Stanley Steinreich, Religious News Service Correspondent.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry., Riseman, Mervin., Kuznet͡sov, Ėduard., Dymshits, Mark Y.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Jews, Soviet., Human rights.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149244
Title:
New York honors Wallenberg, rescuer of Hungarian Jews.
Description:
Article written for the Religious News Service.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League., Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States., Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947.
Topics:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Budapest., World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary--Budapest., Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149238
Title:
The twelfth annual service in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., program.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Andrew, 1932-, Hollingsworth, Marion., Wright, Bruce, 1917-2005., Thomas, George., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Lowe, Edward., Lorick, Benjamin., Laubach, Eugene., Britton, Ruth.
Topics:
Memorial service.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149181
Title:
Teenagers depict adolescent problems in health show, press release.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Metropolitan Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.), New York Medical College. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Topics:
Drama in health education--New York (State)--New York., Teenagers--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York., Theater and youth--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149170

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