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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:
Dean Lewis.
Subject names:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021--Portraits., Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:178128
Title:
Young boy drinking cod liver oil before a meal.
Description:
Palestine 136 Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Just before their milk, the boys have to take a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church 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--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83442
Title:
Refugee camp in Amman, Jordan.
Description:
Palestine 120 Jafar camp Amman. This shows tents put up by refugees in one section of Amman, capital of Jordan. It is not an UNRWA camp and both government and the agency have been waiting to transfer the inmates to a better site with proper sanitation facilities. But as the people have found work in the town and cannot afford to pay the high rents required for accommodation they are resisting proposals to transfer them. Amman has more than trebled [sic] its population in 2 years as a result of the influx of Arab refugees from Palestine, who now form over 40% of the population of Jordan (including Arab Palestine). Some refugee children are seen in the foreground.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church 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--Jordan--Amman., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Amman (Jordan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83424
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:
Group of children.
Description:
Among the 750,000 Arab refugees are many children like those in this camp.
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, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83411
Title:
Korean War, 1950.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:48220
Title:
Korea Evacuee Advisory Committee, 1950-52.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:47140
Title:
Relief/Rehabilitation Funds, Financial Report, 1950-54, 1954.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:45506
Title:
Protestant leaders see Truman.
Description:
Protestant leaders see Truman.
Subject names:
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972., Religious News Service--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7406
Title:
Thanksgiving food donations.
Description:
Boston, Mass.--As a Thank-Offering, parishioners across the country contribute food to their churches for distribution among the needy and shut-ins so that all may have a Happy Thanksgiving. In this scene, food donated to a Protestant church here is blessed by its pastor before being distributed. Looking on are Sunday school children dressed as Puritans.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Thanksgiving Day--Massachusetts--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7378
Title:
Assembly delegates.
Description:
Assembly delegates Ed Smith, Rochester, N.Y.; Virginia Nebelsick, Emery, S.D., and Kyung Ho Lee of Seoul, South Korea, read news of war in Kyung's homeland.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7336
Title:
Special assembly session on academic freedom.
Description:
In special assembly session on academic freedom, Californian Charles Hedges states his views. Other subjects discussed were: segregation, marriage, and United Nations.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7298
Title:
Students and teachers.
Description:
Students and teachers, Board of Church Extension, Division of Negro Work.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Education., Church work with African American youth.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5977
Title:
Rev. Harold Voelkel preaching to RoK troops near Seoul, 1950.
Description:
Reverend Harold Voelkel preaching to Republic of Korea troops near Seoul, 1950.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Voelkel, Harold.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Military chaplains--South Korea.
Geographic subjects:
South Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5582
Title:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel preaching to prisoners of war.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Military chaplains--South Korea.
Geographic subjects:
South Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5557
Title:
Dr. Edward L. R. Elson.
Description:
Dr. E. Elson.
Creator:
Harris and Ewing. (photographer)
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives., Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Portraits.
Topics:
Military chaplains--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5450
Title:
Interment of Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh.
Description:
Sounding taps at interment of Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, Sept. 20, 1950. Dr. Pugh's family at left.
Creator:
United States. Army. (photographer)
Subject names:
Pugh, William Barrow, 1889-1950--Death and burial., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1938-1950 : Pugh), Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)
Topics:
Military funerals--Virginia--Arlington.
Geographic subjects:
Arlington (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5299
Title:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel.
Description:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel asks for a show of hands of those wishing to know more about Christianity.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Voelkel, Harold.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Military chaplains--South Korea.
Geographic subjects:
South Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5192

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