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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:
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:
"Dear Friends" letter by Edwin and Arpine Hanna, December 5, 1982.
Description:
"Dear Friends" letter by Edwin and Arpine Hanna written on December 5, 1982 in Beirut, Lebanon. The letter details the summer 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and includes photographs of building damage and Palestinian refugee children.
Creator:
Hanna, Edwin Bell, 1926-2012. (author), Hanna, Arpiné Yenovkian, 1924-2010. (author)
Topics:
Lebanon--History--Israeli intervention, 1982-1985., Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Buildings--War damage--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116018
Title:
Mother and baby.
Description:
No. 1532, Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. Too little, too late! The tiny Arab refugee baby, shown here in his mother's arms, is now dead. When discovered by Christian welfare workers, he was already a living skeleton, his tiny body wasted from the ravages of malnutrition. Though emergency food of high nutritive quality was immediately supplied the child was already too weak to respond. There are many Arab children like these among Palestinian refugees, and it is only occasionally that Christian relief can save them, this mother, clad in Western church-contributed clothing, is now heartbroken, because the little one which had become so dear to her, especially under the care she had so desperately rendered with little means, is now gone from her miserable life. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees, Palestinian Arab., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83452
Title:
A woman repairs a pair of pants.
Description:
March 1951. No. 1387 (UNRWA 1015). Ain Helweh [Ain al-Hilweh] camp in Lebanon near Saida [Sidon]. There are 7676 persons living in this camp, 1418 families who all live in tents. This picture shows a mother repairing her little boy's clothes. It can be seen from the washing drying on the stones how ragged these clothes are.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83433
Title:
Presbyterian run refugee camp in Lebanon.
Description:
March 1951. No. 1371 (UNRWA 1017). Mia Mia [Miye ou Miye] camp near Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon. This camp is a property belonging to the Presbyterian USA. 1400 refugees in this camp live in tents and the remainder of the total population of 3180 live in barracks. This picture shows a barrack room divided by sacking into several compartments in order to give a semblance of privacy to the families living here. Washing lines and cooking utensils are hanging round the walls.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83432
Title:
A kindergarten class at the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 214. The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 868,000 refugees, more than half are below sixteen years old. Furthermore, with the high birth rate of 40.8 per thousand, some 36,000 refugee babies were born last year. This picture shows the kindergarten at Dekwani camp, Lebanon, where, although there is no backyard, and no blackboard, few books, and the children sit barefoot on the floor, there is a keen attendance.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83417
Title:
A student reads at a school located in the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 215 The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 860,000 refugees more than half are below sixteen years old. At this school a lesson in Arabic is going on. This school in the Dekwani [Dekwaneh] camp in Lebanon has 155 pupils who need books, stationery, and blackboards.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83414
Title:
Arab woman with two children.
Description:
No. 1531. Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. To Christian refugee workers in Tyre this Arab woman is known as the "Thankful woman." She appears frequently at the office door, with one, two, or three children in her arms or hanging to her skirt, seeking aid. Whatever she received food or clothing, or if nothing but sympathy for her miserable condition, she is always profusely thankful. The woman lives with her family in a water tower, has been robbed by night, nearly devoured by insects, and suffers from the perennial need of all Arab refugees hunger and lack of clothing. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83394
Title:
Woman in refugee camp washing clothing.
Description:
March 1951. No. 1379 (UNRWA 1036). Ain Helweh [Ain al-Hilweh] camp near Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon. There are 7676 persons living in this camp, 1418 families who all live in tents. This picture shows a bit of the camp. The woman in the foreground is washing the ragged, patched trousers of the boy standing near her is a clear indication of their poverty.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83388

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