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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:
Gayraud Wilmore interviewed by J. Oscar McCloud, 1982.
Description:
Oral history recorded May 20, 1982 in Rochester, N.Y.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topics:
African Americans--Civil rights., Segregation in education--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133228
Title:
Gayraud Wilmore interviewed by J. Oscar McCloud, 1982.
Description:
Oral history recorded May 20, 1982 in Rochester, N.Y.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Forman, James, 1928-2005., National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Topics:
African Americans--Civil rights., African American clergy, Segregation in education--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133227
Title:
The church mosaic.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116523
Title:
A voice from South Africa, side 1.
Creator:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946- (speaker), Cunningham, Sarah. (speaker)
Subject names:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1982 : Purdue University)
Topics:
Blacks--South Africa.
Geographic subjects:
South Africa--Social conditions., South Africa--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116463
Title:
The church mosaic, side 2.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116456
Title:
The church mosaic, side 1.
Description:
Moderated by Jane Whitney. Panellists: George Morgan, Mary Yamamoto, Thelma Adair, Martha Campbell, Kenton Pipes. Reactors: Allan Boesak, Jill Martinez, Don Black.
Creator:
Whitney, Jane. (moderator), Morgan, George Pidock, 1923- (speaker), Yamamoto, Mary. (speaker), Adair, Thelma. (speaker), Campbell, Martha. (speaker), Pipes, Kenton Robert, 1946- (speaker), Boesak, Allan, 1945- (speaker), Martinez, Jill. (speaker), Black, Donald, 1920- (speaker)
Topics:
Church and the world.
Geographic subjects:
West Lafayette (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116455
Title:
A voice from South Africa, side 2.
Creator:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946- (speaker), Cunningham, Sarah. (speaker)
Subject names:
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1982 : Purdue University)
Topics:
Blacks--South Africa.
Geographic subjects:
South Africa--Social conditions., South Africa--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116453
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 3.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116405
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 2.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116404
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 6.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116397
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 4.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116396
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 1.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116394
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 5.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116390

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