Social and political issues and activism

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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:
Dr. Henry Steel Commager.
Description:
Dr. Henry Steel Commager, Professor of American History at Amherst, speaks on U.S. policy in Vietnam in an address to the U.S. Conference on Church and Society, Detroit, 1967.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998., United States Conference on Church and Society (1967 : Detroit, Mich.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.), United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8166
Title:
Government and church leaders at World Order Parley, Cleveland, Ohio.
Description:
Government and church leaders at World Order Parley, Cleveland, O.--Among principals at the Fifth World Order Study Conference here were these four government and church leaders. Shown left to right are: Methodist G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington, D.C.; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg of St. Louis, Mo., president of the National Council of Churches; and Ernest A. Gross of New York, chairman of the four-day meeting and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The conference was sponsored by the National Council's Department of International Affairs of which Mr. Gross is chairman. Its theme was "Christian Responsibility on a Changing Planet."
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., World Order Study Conference (5th : 1958 : Cleveland, Ohio), Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959., Oxnam, G. Bromley (Garfield Bromley), 1891-1963., Dahlberg, Edwin T. (Edwin Theodore), 1892-1986., Gross, Ernest A. (Ernest Arnold), 1906-1999.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6974
Title:
March on Washington.
Description:
Large crowd around Washington Monument. [Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 6].
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5125
Title:
James Forman burns court order.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topics:
African American civil rights workers.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4951
Title:
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller aboard the USS Krishna.
Description:
NCC President in War Zone: Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches, conducts services for officers and men of the USS Krishna, Naval supply ship off the coast of South Vietnam. Bishop Mueller of Indianapolis, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, spent a week in the South Vietnam war zone during the Easter season. He was accompanied on the annual visit to servicemen overseas -- for the first time this year to a war area-- by Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of New York, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, secretary for program of the NCC's Division of Christian Life and Mission.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Mueller, Reuben H., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Evangelical United Brethren Church., Buschmeyer, Fred S., Lee, J. Oscar., United Church of Christ.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--War work--Churches.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4950
Title:
Man at podium at NCC Assembly.
Description:
Former description: Indian Spokesman Confronts NCC.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4945
Title:
Dr. Martin Niemoeller, Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, and Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy.
Description:
Last Hope for Racial Rapprochement -- 'Christianity': Christianity holds the last hope "for peaceful rapprochement between white and non-white peoples of the globe," the famed German Protestant churchman, Dr. Martin Niemoeller (center), declared in an address before the policy-making General Board of the National Council of Churches at Portland, Ore. Greeting Dr. Niemoeller is Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, president of the NCC, and at left is Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy, NCC general secretary.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Espy, R. H. Edwin, 1908-, Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4936
Title:
"Christian Manifesto" protests.
Description:
Christian Manifesto': Fundamentalist minister Dr. Carl McIntire, right, reads part of his "Christian Manifesto" -- seeking $3 billion in reparations from "modernist" churches -- on the steps of New York's Riverside church. Dr. McIntire, 63, head of the International Council of Christian Churches, said his "Christian Manifesto" was an answer to the "Black Manifesto" delivered by black militant James Forman earlier this year.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), Black Economic Development Conference. Black manifesto., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Race relations--Religious Aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4934
Title:
Group at convention.
Description:
National Council Debates Middle East: Dr. Robert S. Bilheimer, executive director of the National Council of Churches' department of international affairs, answers questions on an NCC "Policy on the Middle East" adopted at the Spring session of the General Board in New York. The policy states that the Christians' concern over the troubled Middle East must concentrate on the element of human need without being pro-Arab or pro-Israeli.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4277
Title:
Dr. Dudley Ward speaks at an NCC General Board meeting.
Description:
NCC Board Discusses Black Manifesto: At top, Dr. Dudley Ward, head of the United Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns, discusses the issue of National Council of Churches response to the Black Manifesto during an NCC General Board meeting in Indianapolis. Dr. Ward opposed the placing of spending limitations on the $500,000 the board has asked member Churches to give to two organizations supporting black economic development. No funds were asked directly for the Black Economic Development Conference, which issued the Manifesto. On the far right is Dr. J. Edward Carothers, head of the National Division of the United Methodist Board of Missions.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Ward, Dudley., Black Economic Development Conference. Black manifesto., United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Christian Social Concerns., Carothers, J. Edward., United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions. National Division.
Geographic subjects:
Indianapolis (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4276
Title:
Student addresses the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Detroit.
Description:
Attempts to give draft card to NCC: James D. Rubins, 21, a student at Hope College, Holland, Mich., addresses the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Detroit. He sought to present his Selective Service card to the delegates, to be held "in trust." Mr. Rubins, a member of the Reformed Church in America, asked the NCC to put "action behind a policy position backing religious obedience and civil disobedience." Assembly delegates voted down Mr. Rubins attempt to surrender his draft card.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Religious News Service., Rubins, James D., Hope College., Reformed Church in America.
Topics:
Draft., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Christian college students.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4275

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