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:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Picketing demonstration in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Creator:
Bollis, George. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hattiesburg Ministers Project., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7132
Title:
Photo proofs of Mount Beulah, Mississippi.
Description:
[Photo proofs of Mount Beulah, Mississippi.]
Creator:
Basom, Nash. (photographer)
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi.
Geographic subjects:
Mississippi.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7118
Title:
From the Children of America to Europe's Needy.
Description:
From the Children of America to Europe's Needy: These three youngsters add their contribution of canned food to the ever increasing stockpile being collected by the churches of America for distribution to Europe's millions of sick and distressed.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Food relief, American--Europe.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7079
Title:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Description:
The March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. Man farthest from the left, front row, is Jon Regier, head of the Division of Christian Life and Mission [of the National Council of Churches of Christ], a key NCC official supporting all civil rights actions of the Council.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Regier, Jon L., 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:7066
Title:
Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description:
Hattiesburg Minister's Project volunteer clergymen meet in a local church.
Creator:
Bollis, George. (photographer)
Subject names:
Hattiesburg Ministers Project., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7064
Title:
Union Avenue, Philadelphia.
Description:
[Union Avenue, Philadelphia, during the U.S. Sanitary's Commision's Great Central Fair.]
Creator:
R. Newell (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7039
Title:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. struck by a rock.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is struck by a rock during a march in Chicago on August 5, 1966.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7010
Title:
Rev. Robert Lyon Beech.
Description:
[Rev. Robert Lyon Beech, director of the NCC's Hattiesburg Minister's Project.]
Creator:
Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of National Ministries--Archives., Beech, Robert, 1935-2008.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6995
Title:
UPCUSA Civil Rights demonstration.
Description:
New York--A peaceful pre-Independence Day demonstration for racial equality was held by some 500 clergymen and members of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The placard-carrying demonstrators marched for 45 minutes in a City Hall Plaza area, then heard addresses by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, center, and Dr. W. Eugene Houston, left, a Harlem pastor who heads the presbytery's new commission on religion and race. The Mayor called for enactment of President Kennedy's civil rights proposals and pledged continuing efforts toward greater racial equality in New York City. Dr. Houston warned against the city "dragging its feet"on integration and called for acceleration of school desegregation.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand),, 1910-1991.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century., Civil rights--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6993
Title:
Government and church leaders at World Order Parley, Cleveland, Ohio.
Description:
Government and church leaders at World Order Parley, Cleveland, O.--Among principals at the Fifth World Order Study Conference here were these four government and church leaders. Shown left to right are: Methodist G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington, D.C.; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg of St. Louis, Mo., president of the National Council of Churches; and Ernest A. Gross of New York, chairman of the four-day meeting and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The conference was sponsored by the National Council's Department of International Affairs of which Mr. Gross is chairman. Its theme was "Christian Responsibility on a Changing Planet."
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., World Order Study Conference (5th : 1958 : Cleveland, Ohio), Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959., Oxnam, G. Bromley (Garfield Bromley), 1891-1963., Dahlberg, Edwin T. (Edwin Theodore), 1892-1986., Gross, Ernest A. (Ernest Arnold), 1906-1999.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6974
Title:
Church Women at Work on the Race Problem.
Description:
Church Women at Work on the Race Problem.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6558
Title:
Horsing-around with a load of dynamite.
Description:
Horsing-around with a load of dynamite. Christian Beacon, 8-8-63. [p. 62].
Creator:
Lockman, Vic. (artist)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6319
Title:
Delta Ministry cross.
Description:
"In gratitude for financial help to the Delta Ministry."
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Crosses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5033
Title:
Group with banner.
Description:
Jonathan's Wake/Win with Love 3-13.
Creator:
John Fulton Photo/Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Demonstrations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5026
Title:
NCC draft lottery.
Description:
"NCC Draft Lottery" 29-39 GA-Detroit MI Nov. 30-Dec. 4 1969.
Creator:
John Fulton Photo/Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Draft., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4980
Title:
Celebrating of death for the NCC.
Description:
Malcolm Boyd leads "Jonathan's Wake" in support of "New Life" for the churches and celebration of death for the NCC 10-22 #18.
Creator:
John Fulton Photo/Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Demonstrations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4958
Title:
Sign and charred cross.
Description:
Remains of an 8 foot Cross.
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Crosses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4954
Title:
James Forman burns court order.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topics:
African American civil rights workers.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4951
Title:
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller aboard the USS Krishna.
Description:
NCC President in War Zone: Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches, conducts services for officers and men of the USS Krishna, Naval supply ship off the coast of South Vietnam. Bishop Mueller of Indianapolis, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, spent a week in the South Vietnam war zone during the Easter season. He was accompanied on the annual visit to servicemen overseas -- for the first time this year to a war area-- by Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of New York, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, secretary for program of the NCC's Division of Christian Life and Mission.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Mueller, Reuben H., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Evangelical United Brethren Church., Buschmeyer, Fred S., Lee, J. Oscar., United Church of Christ.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--War work--Churches.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4950
Title:
Man at podium at NCC Assembly.
Description:
Former description: Indian Spokesman Confronts NCC.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4945

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