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Description:Duty police at a Washington for Jesus rally, raising their arms in prayer and praise.Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., United Methodist Church (U.S.)Topics:Washington for Jesus rally., Christian police officers--Washington (D.C.), Police-community relations--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148478
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Description:A group of demonstrators from Hineni, a national Jewish women's organization demonstrates in support of Israel.Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Jungreis, Esther., Janov, Barbara., Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992.Topics:Jews--Restoration., Jews--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), Jerusalem--In Judaism., Hebron--In Judaism.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148436
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Description:Members of an Arab, Muslim and African student coalition demonstrate across from the White House.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Arab-Israeli conflict--1973-1993., Student protesters--Washington (D.C.), Student movements--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148379
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Description:President Carter leans across the Cabinet room table at the White House to receive a book as a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., White House (Washington, D.C.), Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992., Carter, Jimmy, 1924-Topics:Christian Zionism--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), Israel--Politics and governmentURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148355
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Description:Police remove an anti-nuclear demonstrator from the main entrance to the Pentagon.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Pentagon (Va.)Topics:Antinuclear movement--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Police and mass media--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148340
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Title:Description:Women carry a banner as they march down Pennsylvania Avenue to a pro-abortion rally. [This photograph is from the same demonstration as "Abortion: pro" (PC-42317) and both are from the counter-protest referenced in the caption for "Abortion: con." (PC-42318[b])]Creator:Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Pro-choice movement--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147173
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Description:Senator Daniel P. Moynihan addresses delegates to the American Jewish Congress national biennial convention in Washington. With him are (left to right): Phil Baum, associate executive director; Henry Siegman, executive director; Howard M. Squadron, president.Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., American Jewish Congress., Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003., Baum, Phil., Siegman, Henry., Squadron, Howard M.Topics:Speeches, addresses, etc., Soviet Union--Relations--United States., Soviet Union--Relations--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), Middle East--Foreign relations---1979.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147080
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Title:Description:Inhabitants of Resurrection City, home of the Poor People's Campaign, read newspaper accounts 6/8 of the capture of James Earl Ray, the accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in London. Announcement of the capture was read over the public address system in the campsite. UPI Telephoto.Creator:Gilbert Photo Service, Inc. (photographer), United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Death and burial., Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998.Topics:Assassination--Investigation--United States., American newspapers--Headlines., American newspapers--Headlines.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147034
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Title:Description:Pro-abortion demonstrators mass at the west front of the Capitol Building. [This photograph is from the same demonstration as "Abortion: pro" (PC-42317) and both are from the counter-protest referenced in the caption for "Abortion: con." (PC-42318[b])]Creator:Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Pro-choice movement--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147019
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Description:Produced by the WRC-TV Community Affairs Department in association with the National Presbyterian Center and the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Guests of Dr. Lowell R. Ditzen, host, include: Rear Admiral Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.; Chaplain, Colonel Simon H. Scott, Jr.; Rev. A. Ray Appelquist.Creator:Ditzen, Lowell Russell, 1913-1987. (speaker), Hutcheson, Richard G., 1921-2012. (speaker), Scott, Simon H. (speaker), Appelquist, A. Ray. (speaker)Subject names:National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Council of Churches of Greater Washington (D.C.), WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)Topics:Military chaplains.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116517
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Description:A radio interview with Dr. John David Hayes, former prisoner of war, recorded between 1953-1957 at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. Dr. Hayes was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in China. He was imprisoned, 1951-1952.Creator:Hayes, John David, 1888-1957. (interviewee)Subject names:National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)Topics:Communism--China., Prisoners of war--United States., Prisoners of war--China., Political prisoners--China., Communism and Christianity--China.Geographic subjects:China.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116515
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Description:Letter from Frederick Douglass to Rev. Henry G. Martin, August 9, 1885, in which Douglass provides Martin with an extract from his April 16th, 1885, speech.Creator:Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. (author)Subject names:Clay, Henry, 1777-1852., Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895., Martin, Henry G. (Henry George)Topics:Slavery--Religious aspects.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:112855
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Title:Description:Sermon by Rev. Dr. Peter Marshall delivered at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, May 24, 1942.Creator:Marshall, Peter, 1902-1949. (author)Subject names:New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)Topics:Sermons, American--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--Sermons., Presbyterian Church--Sermons--20th century.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82930
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Title:Description:Sermon by Rev. Dr. Peter Marshall delivered at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, December 14, 1941.Creator:Marshall, Peter, 1902-1949. (author)Subject names:New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)Topics:World War, 1939-1945--Sermons., Presbyterian Church--Sermons--20th century., Sermons, American--20th century.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82914
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Title:Description:Sermon by Rev. Dr. Peter Marshall delivered at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, September 29, 1940.Creator:Marshall, Peter, 1902-1949. (author)Subject names:New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)Topics:Presbyterian Church--Sermons--20th century., Sermons, American--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--Sermons.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82899
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Description:Sermon by Rev. Dr. Peter Marshall delivered at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, September 15, 1940.Creator:Marshall, Peter, 1902-1949. (author)Subject names:New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)Topics:World War, 1939-1945--Sermons., Presbyterian Church--Sermons--20th century., Sermons, American--20th century.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82859
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Description:The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union.Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:12190
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Description:Letter to Reverend. J. Wilbur Chapman, Dec. 19, 1917, from Woodrow Wilson. "My dear Doctor Chapman: I value your letter of December seventeenth and am very much cheered by it. I did not doubt that the Church would respond in the finest way to the patriotic appeals made to it, and I thank you very warmly for the very encouraging report which you so generously make. Cordially and sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson."Creator:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. (author)Subject names:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924., Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur), 1859-1918.Topics:World War, 1914-1918.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10164
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Description:[Rev. Dr. Elson with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, and families at the Pre-Inaugural Service at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.]Creator:Rowe, Abbie, 1905-1967. (photographer)Subject names:Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993., Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969--Inauguration, 1957., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Inauguration, 1957., Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8687
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Title:Description:March in Washington, D.C. with Church of Pilgrims Sign.Creator:Cockcroft, David. (photographer)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). National Ministries Division. Justice and Compassion--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8341
