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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:
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
Title:
Christopher House.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago, Christopher House, Vacation Bible School [children with baskets on front sidewalk].
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago., Christian vacation schools--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5092
Title:
Bohemian Settlement House.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago-Bohemian Settlement house- game room of boys' building.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago., Church work with children--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5094
Title:
Gary Neighborhood House.
Description:
Gary Neighborhood House, Gary, Indiana. Junior boy in workshop.
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Gary Neighborhood House., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Social settlements--Indiana--Gary.
Geographic subjects:
Gary (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5102
Title:
Gillespie-Selden Institute, Cordele, Georgia.
Description:
Happy but poor --"Operation Headstart" at Gillespie-Selden Institute, Cordele, Georgia.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Gillespie-Selden Institute for Practical Nursing.
Topics:
Head Start programs--Georgia--Cordele--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Cordele (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5439
Title:
Project Head Start.
Description:
Project Head Start at a Presbyterian Church.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.
Topics:
Head Start programs--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5593
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:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Children's Christmas party, December 1947.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--War work--Churches., Church war work.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7602
Title:
Westminster Neighbohood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Description:
Westminster Neighbohood Association.
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Community centers--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the homeless--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the poor--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with youth--California--Los Angeles--20th century., City missions---California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Citizens' associations--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8609
Title:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Description:
Westminster Neighborhood Association.
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Community centers--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the homeless--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the poor--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with youth--California--Los Angeles--20th century., City missions---California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Citizens' associations--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8675
Title:
Westminster Neighbohood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Description:
Westminster Neighbohood Association.
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Community centers--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the homeless--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the poor--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with youth--California--Los Angeles--20th century., City missions---California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Citizens' associations--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8719
Title:
Westminster Neighbohood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Description:
Westminster Neighbohood Association.
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Community centers--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the homeless--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the poor--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with youth--California--Los Angeles--20th century., City missions---California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Citizens' associations--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8749
Title:
Westminster Neighbohood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Description:
Westminster Neighbohood Association.
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Community centers--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the homeless--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the poor--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with youth--California--Los Angeles--20th century., City missions---California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Citizens' associations--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8813
Title:
Westminster Neighbohood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Description:
Westminster Neighbohood Association.
Subject names:
Westminster Neighborhood Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
Community centers--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the homeless--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with the poor--California--Los Angeles--20th century., Church work with youth--California--Los Angeles--20th century., City missions---California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Citizens' associations--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8823
Title:
Portland, Oregon.
Description:
Portland, Oregon. [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)
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71683
Title:
Portland, Oregon.
Description:
Portland, Oregon. [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)
Geographic subjects:
Albina (Portland, Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71684
Title:
Student writing on blackboard.
Description:
"We want to go home," an Arab schoolboy writes on the blackboard in a refugee camp in Hebron. This longing to return to homes in Palestine is the dominant, almost-exclusive desire of 850,000 Arab refugees in camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon (except in Israel, where their former homes are). (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.) [Published in April 1952 Presbyterian Survey.]
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--West Bank., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
West Bank., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83383
Title:
Vocational school of the World Church Council.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Hungary., Refugees--Austria.
Geographic subjects:
Austria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83402
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:
Eugene Callender statements and panel discussion on work in Harlem, 6 August 1967, side 2.
Description:
Introductory statements and panel discussion with Eugene Callender and young men involved in his evangelistic and social work among youth in Harlem. Recorded for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) Department of Television Radio and Audio-Visuals (TRAV), August 6, 1967.
Creator:
Callender, Eugene. (speaker)
Subject names:
Callender, Eugene., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. TRAV.
Topics:
Evangelistic work--New York (state)--New York., Social work with African American children--New York (state)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116375

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