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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:
Cameron House, San Francisco, ca. 1920s.
Description:
Group of women and girls at Chinese Mission Home - San Francisco, California.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Donaldina Cameron House., Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, 1869-1968.
Topics:
Home missions--California--San Francisco., Church work with Asian Americans--California--San Francisco--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150478
Title:
The broken promise 4,200 Mississippi children will never forget.
Description:
National Committee for the Children of Mississippi poster appealing for more federal funds for Head Start programs.
Creator:
National Committee for the Children of Mississippi. (publisher)
Subject names:
Child Development Group of Mississippi., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Head Start programs--Mississippi., Federal aid to child welfare--Mississippi.
Geographic subjects:
Mississippi.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147491
Title:
Campus Pepper newsletter.
Description:
Campus Pepper, Vol. II, No. 1, September 28, 1943. Written and published bi-monthly by Manzanar High School journalism students at the Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Manzanar, California.
Subject names:
Oltmans, Sarah Clarke, 1889-1991--Archives., Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Asian American students--Pacific Coast (U.S.), Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California., Japanese Americans--Missions., Student newspapers and periodicals--California--Manzanar., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Incarceration camps--California.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146376
Title:
The Japanese in our midst, 1943.
Description:
Pamphlet published by the Colorado Council of Churches which questions the morality of holding Japanese Americans in incarceration camps.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Pacific Coast (U.S.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146359
Title:
The Story of Japanese-American student relocation.
Description:
World Student Service Fund pamphlet which urges young Americans to come to the aid of Japanese American students by supporting the relocation efforts of the WSSF.
Topics:
Asian American students--Pacific Coast., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Pacific Coast (U.S.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146354
Title:
Board of National Missions miners hospitals discussions, April 1963.
Description:
Miners Memorial Hospitals - Board of National Missions semi-annual meeting in New York, 1963 late April.
Creator:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Church and social problems--United States.
Geographic subjects:
West Virginia--Hospitals--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116482
Title:
Kenneth G. Neigh and Ross Greek on metropolitan mission, before 1967.
Description:
Audio tape portion of KIT 345, presented at annual meeting of the UPCUSA Board of National Missions, New York, April 27-28, 1967. Urban ministry needs in Los Angeles. Focuses on: the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church with Ross Greek, minister; Watts; race relations; Budd Schulberg. Tape includes excerpts of a Neigh address from 1962, and a recording by Ross Greek from 1966.
Creator:
Greek, Ross Albert, 1914-1995. (speaker), Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (speaker)
Subject names:
West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.), Schulberg, Budd., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
City missions--California--Los Angeles., Church and social problems--California--Los Angeles., City churches--California--Los Angeles.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116461
Title:
The national mission in youth's poverty and plenty.
Description:
One of seven chapters reprinted from the Board of National Missions Annual Report for 1966. Focuses on Watts Neighborhood Association and Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles, California.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (author), Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (author)
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Riots--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Poor., Church work with youth., Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:81465
Title:
Reverend Samuel Johnson sits with a group of teenagers.
Description:
School hours are informal but give kids a chance to get with it, educationally speaking. (The man sitting in for "teacher" here is Rev. Samuel Johnson, a Pentecostal preacher.) [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Johnson, Samuel.
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71690
Title:
Group of teenagers.
Description:
Out-of-school teenagers are tough nuts to crack, but C-CAP [Church-Community Action Program] youth worker Frank T. Fair over 8-month period has won their confidence. [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
City missions--Oregon--Portland., African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71689
Title:
Group of young men help move furniture.
Description:
Some of the "new Breed" crew load up for a moving job. They cart furniture for needy families, get small fee from welfare agency. [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71688
Title:
Jessie M. Varner and Iantha Buchanan in front of C-CAP.
Description:
C-CAP [Church-Community Action Program] headquarters occupy a storefront on Fremont St., are (is?) flanked by modest dwellings that make up the largely-Negro Albina section. Jessie M. Varner (right) assistant director checks schedule with her helper, Iantha Buchanan, a schoolgirl released for daytime work through poverty program's Neighborhood Youth Center. She attends school at night. [Images from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71687
Title:
Reverend John W. Brooks and Reverend J. Dwight Russell in front of the Interchurch Center.
Description:
Rev. John W. Brooks (left), urban church specialist for Synod of Oregon, and Rev. J. Dwight Russell, synod executive, stand in front of Interchurch Center. Another evidence of Portland's ecumenical spirit, the building houses Presbyterian offices, state and city councils of churches and headquarters of several other denominations. [Image from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71686
Title:
Frank Fair speaks to young man.
Description:
Frank Fair (left) holds street conversation with Albina youth. [Image from Presbyterian Life, 15 May 1967 article on Portland, Oregon, regarding outreach to black youth and Albina neighborhood.]
Creator:
Delano Photographics (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Topics:
African Americans--Missions--Oregon--Portland., City missions--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71685
Title:
Activities, Thirty Presbyterian Neighborhood Houses.
Description:
Activities, Thirty Presbyterian Neighborhood Houses [p. 52]
Creator:
Wilson, Christine T. (author), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of City, Immigrant and Industrial Work. (publisher)
Topics:
City missions--United States., Social settlements--United States., Home missions--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6284
Title:
House of Neighborly Service, San Antonio, Texas.
Description:
House of Neighborly Service San Antonio, Texas. Mothers and babies come to "well-being" clinic.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Home of Neighborly Service (San Antonio, Tex.)
Topics:
Social settlements--Texas--San Antonio.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5150
Title:
Child Development Group of Mississippi Head Start Program Scrapbook.
Description:
Juice time. [From: The Graduation of the Class of '67 of the CDGM Head Start Program, Porterville Center, Kemper County, Mississippi, August 27, 1967, page 8.]
Creator:
Child Development Group of Mississippi. (creator)
Subject names:
Child Development Group of Mississippi., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Mission Development--Archives.
Topics:
Head Start programs--Mississippi.
Geographic subjects:
Porterville (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:418

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