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News program segment by NPR's Donna Carter regarding Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs, two Native American civil rights activists who held hostages at the office of The Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, North Carolina. Hatcher and Jacobs were protesting discrimination against minority communities, specifically Native Americans, in the criminal justice and court systems of Robeson County. Also covered is deputy sheriff Kevin Stone's killing of Jimmy Earl Cummings, a Lumbee Indian man.
Creator:
National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Carter, Donna. (reporter)
Subject names:
Hatcher, Eddie., Jacobs, Timothy., Cummings, Jimmy Earl.
Topics:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--20th century., Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--Robeson County., Police corruption--North Carolina--Robeson County.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286443
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News program by NPR's John Burnett regarding Blakely, Georgia's Concerned Black Citizens Committee's federal civil rights suit against the City of Blakely and the Blakely Fire Department. The suit alleges that Blakely fire chief Franklin Brown and two of his firefighters belong to the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Creator:
National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Burnett, John F. (reporter)
Subject names:
Center for Democratic Renewal., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
Topics:
Racism against Black people--United States., White supremacy movements--Georgia., Race discrimination--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286345
Description:
Gayraud Wilmore and Metz Rollins interviewed by Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards for an ADL radio forum, 1960s.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (interviewee), Bernards, Solomon S., 1914-2004. (interviewer)
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133242
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Produced by the WRC-TV Community Affairs Department in association with the National Presbyterian Center and the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Guests of Dr. Lowell R. Ditzen, host, include: Rear Admiral Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.; Chaplain, Colonel Simon H. Scott, Jr.; Rev. A. Ray Appelquist.
Creator:
Ditzen, Lowell Russell, 1913-1987. (speaker), Hutcheson, Richard G., 1921-2012. (speaker), Scott, Simon H. (speaker), Appelquist, A. Ray. (speaker)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Council of Churches of Greater Washington (D.C.), WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Military chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116517
Description:
A radio interview with Dr. John David Hayes, former prisoner of war, recorded between 1953-1957 at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. Dr. Hayes was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in China. He was imprisoned, 1951-1952.
Creator:
Hayes, John David, 1888-1957. (interviewee)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Communism--China., Prisoners of war--United States., Prisoners of war--China., Political prisoners--China., Communism and Christianity--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116515
Description:
Radio broadcast by Good News Radio on the arrival of Cuban refugees, resettled in Newark from Miami in 1962. Includes brief interviews with refugees deplaning. Concludes with remarks by Eugene Carson Blake.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Topics:
Cubans--United States., Refugees--Cuba.
Geographic subjects:
Newark (N.J.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116502
Description:
Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Goode, Richard. (narrator), Carter, Nancy. (director)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Alabama.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116487
Description:
Live call-in radio program featuring Lillian Brown, Wes Bowen, Basil Grimes, and Don Llewellyn, discussing the world of television and its relationship and responsibility to society.
Creator:
Russell Recording Company. (creator)
Subject names:
National Radio Pulpit.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116367
Description:
Five radio spots, approx. 1 minute each, concerning Cuban refugee relief in Miami. Produced with cooperation of the Division of Radio and Television, UPCUSA. Representative of Lutheran Emergency Center speaking in the name of Rev. E.F. Gruell about distribution of food to refugees -- Rev. Humberto Carrazana, Methodist Com. of Overseas Relief speaks about resettlement of refugees -- Carmen Ibanez, social worker, Latin Episcopal Center, concerning English lessons being given to refugees -- Rev. Sosa, 1st United Presbyterian Church, Miami, concerning resettlement of refugees -- Rev. Sosa's wife, describes kindergarten for refugees supported by the Church.
Subject names:
First Spanish Presbyterian Church (Miami, Fla.), Sosa, Ernesto., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Cuba., Cubans--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83075
Description:
Radio play on Revolutionary War service of George Duffield, aired May 16, 1955, produced by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Broadcasting and Film Commission. Side 1: Chaplain Duffield, program 187, for broadcast the week of May 16, 1955. Episodes of the radio series, Let there be light.
Subject names:
Duffield, George, 1732-1790., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Department of Radio and Television., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Broadcasting and Film Commission.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71697

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