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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:
Letter from John H. Grosvenor to the Presbytery of Washington City, July 24, 1963.
Description:
Letter from John H. Grosvenor, Jr., Moderator of the Presbytery of Washington City. In his letters, he asks all pastors and clerks of session in the Presbytery to address their congregations in support of the upcoming March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Creator:
Grosvenor, John H. (author)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Grosvenor, John H., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Washington City., Morrison, William Angus, 1915-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345262
Title:
Telegram from William A. Morrison to President John F. Kennedy, June 30, 1963.
Description:
Telegram from William A. Morrison, General Secretary of the Board of Christian Education, to President John F. Kennedy. Urges the President and the White House to organize a conference on civil rights issues in the country.
Creator:
Morrison, William Angus, 1915- (author), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. (addressee)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Morrison, William Angus, 1915-, Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (175th : 1963 : Des Moines, Iowa)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345260
Title:
Letter from Rev. Thomas Kilgore to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, July 30, 1963.
Description:
Letter written by Rev. Thomas Kilgore of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the UPCUSA. In the letter, Rev. Kilgore urgently asks for financial support for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Creator:
Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998. (author), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (addressee)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345245
Title:
Rev. Bruce William Klunder memorial address by Eugene Carson Blake.
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
Title:
The Church and Draft Information
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284902
Title:
Presbyterians and the Draft.
Description:
Written by Ralph D. Nyland, chairman of the Draft Counseling Committee at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in DeWitt, New York.
Creator:
Nyland, Ralph D. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors., Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church (De Witt, N.Y.)
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284897
Title:
To Be a Conscientious Objector.
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284884
Title:
Letter from Gwen Patton Woods to L. William Yolton, February 16, 1970.
Description:
Letter addressed to Rev. L. William Yolton, Secretary of the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War, written by Gwen Patton Woods of the National Association of Black Students.
Creator:
Patton, Gwendolyn M., 1943- (author), Yolton, L. William (Leroy William), 1930- (addressee)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284880
Title:
Down with the Simpson-Rodino Act!
Description:
Protest flyer for the first anniversary of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (popularly called "Simpson-Rodino.")
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Social Justice and Peacemaking Ministry Unit., United States. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Topics:
Emigration and immigration., Immigration advocates--United States., Human rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Dallas (Tex.), United States--Emigration and immigration law--Government policy., United States--Emigration and immigration law--Social aspects., United States--Emigration and immigration law--Political aspects.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153420
Title:
Vigil for detained Cuban refugees at Atlanta Federal Penintentiary.
Description:
Taken at a vigil in front of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
Subject names:
United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia., Mariel Boatlift, 1980.
Topics:
Emigration and immigration., Immigration advocates--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Emigration and immigration., Cuba--Emigration and immigration., Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153419
Title:
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr weekly columns, 1948.
Description:
Weekly columns written by Dr. Reinhold Neibuhr and published by the Religious News Service. Discusses social, cultural, and political issues from a religious and moral viewpoint. Topics include: nuclear warfare; famine and humanitarian crises; inequality and injustice; world peace; interdenominational cooperation; reconstruction in Europe after World War II; immigration and refugees; United States race relations; issues of church and state; the social and economic conditions of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; Communism; family values and gender roles; the creation of the World Council of Churches; the United States presidential election; religion in the public schools; and more.
Creator:
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., United States. Army., Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948., Masaryk, Jan, 1886-1948., Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ, 1874-1948., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949., Davis, Garry, 1921-2013., Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950., Marshall Plan., United Nations., World Council of Churches., World Council of Churches. Assembly (1st : 1948 : Amsterdam, Netherlands), Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972., Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
Topics:
Journalism, Religious--History--20th century., Political ethics., Social ethics., Christianity and international affairs., World politics--1945-1989., International relief., Church and state--United States., Religious tolerance., Interdenominational cooperation., Emigration and immigration., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Race relations--United States--1940-1950., Nuclear arms control., Communism and international relations., Presidents--United States--1948., Jewish-Arab relations.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Politics and government--20th century., United States--Religion--20th century., United States--Social conditions--20th century., Germany--History--1945-1955., Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948., Soviet Union--Relations--Yugoslavia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:152869
Title:
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr weekly columns, 1947.
Description:
Weekly columns written by Dr. Reinhold Neibuhr and published by the Religious News Service. Discusses social, cultural, and political issues from a religious and moral viewpoint. Topics include: nuclear warfare; famine and humanitarian crises; inequality and injustice; world peace; interdenominational cooperation; reconstruction in Europe after World War II; immigration and refugees; United States race relations; issues of church and state; the social and economic conditions of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and more.
Creator:
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972., Niemoeller, Martin, 1892-1984., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962., United Nations., Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965., MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964., Mayo Clinic., World Conference of Christian Youth (2nd : 1947 : Oslo, Norway), Berggrav, Eivind, 1884-1959., Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969., Marshall Plan., Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950.
Topics:
Journalism, Religious--History--20th century., Political ethics., Social ethics., Christianity and international affairs., World politics--1945-1989., International relief., Church and state--United States., Interdenominational cooperation., Emigration and immigration., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Race relations--United States--1940-1950., Nuclear arms control., Nonviolence--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Politics and government--20th century., United States--Religion--20th century., United States--Social conditions--20th century., Germany--History--1945-1955., France--Social conditions--20th century., Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948., India--History--Partition, 1947.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:152623
Title:
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr weekly columns, 1946.
Description:
Weekly columns written by Dr. Reinhold Neibuhr and published by the Religious News Service. Discusses social, cultural, and political issues from a religious and moral viewpoint. Topics include: nuclear warfare; famine and humanitarian crises; inequality and injustice; world peace; interdenominational cooperation; reconstruction in Europe after World War II; immigration and refugees; United States race relations; and more. Begins with promotional material which introduces Dr. Niebuhr.
Creator:
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Niebuhr, United Nations., Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972., Catholic Church--Relations., Niemoeller, Martin, 1892-1984.
Topics:
Journalism, Religious--History, Political ethics., Social ethics., Christianity and international affairs., World politics--1945-1989., International relief., Interdenominational cooperation., Emigration and immigration., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Race relations--United States--1940-1950., Nuclear arms control., Jewish-Arab relations.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Religion--20th century., United States--Social conditions--20th century., Germany--History--1945-1955., Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948., United States--Politics and government--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:152491
Title:
Peace march spans the generations.
Description:
A mother and her child join a massive peace march in New York, part of a nationwide protest against the war in Vietnam.
Creator:
Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--New York (State)--New York., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--New York (State)--New York., Mothers and daughters--New York (State)--New York (State)., Anti-war demonstrations--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147143
Title:
Francis James Grimke.
Description:
[Francis James Grimke.]
Subject names:
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Social reformers--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6960
Title:
Maggie Kuhn pins Mayor Rizzo.
Description:
Maggie "pins" Mayor Rizzo May 4, 1975 at ceremony honoring Vince Giglia for his work as advocate of persons with learning problems.
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie., Rizzo, Frank, 1920-1991., Gray Panthers.
Topics:
Social reformers--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6942
Title:
Francis James Grimke.
Description:
[Francis James Grimke.]
Subject names:
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Social reformers--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6927
Title:
Francis and Archibald Grimke.
Subject names:
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937., Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Social reformers--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6919
Title:
Henry Ward Beecher.
Description:
[Henry Ward Beecher.]
Subject names:
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy., Abolitionists--United States., Social reformers--United States--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6394

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