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Description:Recorded in the Board Room of the Board of National Missions, Interchurch Center, New York, NY in 1964. Conversations between Malcolm X and executives from various Presbyterian agencies and boards. Executives present include: Dr. Archie R. Crouch, Rev. Bryant George, Dr. Kenneth Neigh, Dr. David Ramage, Dr. Harry Stearns, Rev. Matthew H. Thies, Dr. Gayraud S. Willmore, Jr. Others present have not been identified.Creator:X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. (speaker), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)Subject names:Crouch, Archie R., 1909-1999., George, Bryant, 1927-2007., Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996., Ramage, David., Stearns, Harry L., 1900-1985., Thies, Matthew Henry, 1923-1985., Wilmore, Gayraud S., 1921-2020., X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.Topics:African American leadership., African American clergy--Political activity., African Americans--Civil rights., Church and social problems--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Islam.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:346909
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Description:Recorded in the Board Room of the Board of National Missions, Interchurch Center, New York, NY in 1964. Conversations between Malcolm X and executives from various Presbyterian agencies and boards. Executives present include: Dr. Archie R. Crouch, Rev. Bryant George, Dr. Kenneth Neigh, Dr. David Ramage, Dr. Harry Stearns, Rev. Matthew H. Thies, Dr. Gayraud S. Willmore, Jr. Others present have not been identified.Creator:X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. (speaker), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)Subject names:Crouch, Archie R., 1909-1999., George, Bryant, 1927-2007., Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996., Ramage, David., Stearns, Harry L., 1900-1985., Thies, Matthew Henry, 1923-1985., Wilmore, Gayraud S., 1921-2020., X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.Topics:African American leadership., African American clergy--Political activity., African Americans--Civil rights., Church and social problems--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Islam.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:346908
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Description:Recorded in the Board Room of the Board of National Missions, Interchurch Center, New York, NY in 1964. Conversations between Malcolm X and executives from various Presbyterian agencies and boards. Executives present include: Dr. Archie R. Crouch, Rev. Bryant George, Dr. Kenneth Neigh, Dr. David Ramage, Dr. Harry Stearns, Rev. Matthew H. Thies, Dr. Gayraud S. Willmore, Jr. Others present have not been identified.Creator:X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. (speaker), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)Subject names:Crouch, Archie R., 1909-1999., George, Bryant, 1927-2007., Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996., Ramage, David., Stearns, Harry L., 1900-1985., Thies, Matthew Henry, 1923-1985., Wilmore, Gayraud S., 1921-2020., X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.Topics:African American leadership., African American clergy--Political activity., African Americans--Civil rights., Church and social problems--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects-- Islam.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:346907
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Description:Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.Creator:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.Topics:Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.Geographic subjects:Cleveland (Ohio)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344177
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Description:Materials related to the New York City school boycott orchestrated by Milton Arthur Galamison, pastor of Siloam Presbyterian Church. Galamison and hundreds of students marched through Harlem in protest of the continued segregation of New York's public schools, and the mistreatment of Black and Puerto Rican children.Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbytery of New York City--Archives., Galamison, Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988., Siloam Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.)Topics:African American clergy--New York (State)--New York., African American Presbyterians--New York (State)--New York., Boycotts--New York (State)--New York., Segregation in education--New York (State)--New York., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181881
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Title:Description:Materials related to a "Fund for Freedom", the special initiative for congregations to raise money to support the Council on Church and Race. Features correspondence, financial statements, reports, promotional materials, and brochures.Creator:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. (author), Logan, Jay M. (author), George, Bryant, 1927-. (author), Kuhn, Maggie. (author), Johnson, Roger H. (author), Ramirez, Ruth. (author), Cox, W. K. (author), Taylor, Theophilus Mills, 1909-. (author)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Council. Department of Interpretation and Stewardship., Wilmore, Gayraud S., McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-.Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177604
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Title:Description:Materials related to a "Fund for Freedom", the special initiative for congregations to raise money to support the Council on Church and Race. Features correspondence, financial statements, reports, promotional materials, newsletters, and brochures.Creator:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. (author), Lyttle, James A. (author), Wilmore, Gayraud S. (author), Logan, Jay M. (author), Thomas, Winburn Townshed, 1909-1981. (author), Calkins, Bruce. (author), Jameson, Vic. (author), McKinnis, Carole. (author), Karsch, Carl G. (author), Firth, Richard W. (author), George, Bryant, 1927-. (author), Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (author), Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (author), Anderson, Donald L. (author), Kuhn, Maggie. (author), Wooley, Woodrow. (author), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923-. (author), Mercado, Juan E. (author), Moore, Richard E. (author), Eichenberg, Henry. (author), Williams, Edward E. (author), Clark, Paul S. (author)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Council. Department of Interpretation and Stewardship., Wilmore, Gayraud S., McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-., Logan, Jay M.Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177507
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Description:Interviews with Arab Christian Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, recorded May 8, 1964, in Jerusalem. Includes Najib Khoury, secretary for the Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem; Herbert Schwartz, director of the Mennonite Central Committee in Jordan; William Alonzo, clerk, Bank of the Middle East. Notes indicate interviews are "radio programs for John Groller." Groller was director of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.Creator:Carmichael, H. Kenn (Herbert Kenneth), 1908- (interviewer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.Topics:Jewish-Arab relations., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Interviews.Geographic subjects:Arab countries--History--20th century., Israel., Jordan., Palestine.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116526
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Description:Interviews with Arab Christian Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, recorded May 8, 1964, in Jerusalem. Includes Najib Khoury, secretary for the Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem; Herbert Schwartz, director of the Mennonite Central Committee in Jordan; William Alonzo, clerk, Bank of the Middle East. Notes indicate interviews are "radio programs for John Groller." Groller was director of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.Creator:Carmichael, H. Kenn (Herbert Kenneth), 1908- (interviewer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.Topics:Jewish-Arab relations., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Interviews.Geographic subjects:Palestine., Arab countries--History--20th century., Israel., Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116495
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Description:Eugene Callender, of Harlem's Presbyterian Church of the Master and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race, address on evangelization and racial justice, 1964-1966.Creator:Callender, Eugene. (speaker)Subject names:Church of the Master Presbyterian Church (Manhattan, N.Y.)Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:Harlem (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116402
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Description:Edler Hawkins speaking on the role of the Presbyterian Church in the civil rights struggle. Presented at General Assembly, probably 1964.Creator:Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (speaker)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (176th : 1964 : Oklahoma City, Okla.)Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians., Civil rights--United States.Geographic subjects:Oklahoma City (Okla.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116235
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Title:Description:United Presbyterian Church Commission on Religion and Race brochure supporting the principle of a nonsegregated society.Creator:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. (author)Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society.Topics:Church and social problems--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century., African Americans--Segregation., Church and social problems--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83360
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Description:[Letter to Gayraud S. Wilmore from Robert Beech regarding the attack on Rev. Paul Dotson.]Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., Wilmore, Gayraud S., Beech, Robert, 1935-2008.Topics:African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century., Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.Geographic subjects:Hattiesburg (Miss.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7438
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: The almost constant rain in Hattiesburg dampened everything but the spirits of the clergy demonstrators. The four pictured below are (left to right) United Presbyterians Dudley E. Sarfaty, Carl Raymond Smith, John Coventry Smith, and Robert J. Stone.Subject names:Hattiesburg Ministers Project., Smith, Carl R., Sarfaty, Dudley E., Smith, John Coventry, 1903-, Stone, Robert John, 1919-Topics:Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.Geographic subjects:Hattiesburg (Miss.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7337
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Description:[Voter registration promotion leaflet provided by the U.P.C.U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.]Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Voter registration--United States--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7326
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Title:Description:[Rev. Robert J. Stone (1919- ), Associate Director of CORAR (1964-1967), takes a break in front of posters advertising Freedom Day, 1964.]Subject names:Stone, Robert John, 1919-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7260
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Description:[Rev. Don G. Morse and another clergyman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.]Subject names:Hattiesburg Ministers Project., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.Topics:Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects., Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.Geographic subjects:Hattiesburg (Miss.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7216
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Description:Eugene Carson Blake, left, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and chairman of the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, and Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, [meet with reporters in the concourse of the Jackson, Mississippi airport to explain the Delta Ministry's summer student program].Creator:Chambers, Elsie M. (photographer)Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)Topics:Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.Geographic subjects:Jackson (Miss.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7199
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Description:Hattiesburg Minister's Project volunteer clergymen participate in a morning prayer service.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 workers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.Geographic subjects:Hattiesburg (Miss.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7161
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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