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:
Out of the House of Bondage
Description:
By the author of Friendly counsels for freedmen, etc.
Creator:
Waterbury, J. B. (Jared Bell), 1799-1876. (author)
Topics:
Freedmen., Freedmen--Conduct of life., Slavery--United States--19th century., Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery in the Bible., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177196
Title:
Little Joe Carter, the cripple
Creator:
Finley, Martha, 1828-1909. (author), Van Ingen & Snyder. (engraver)
Topics:
Sunday school literature., Children with disabilities--Juvenile fiction., Forgiveness--Juvenile fiction.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:81567
Title:
Committee for Education of Freedmen minutes, 1864-1865.
Description:
Records of the General Assembly's Western Committee for the religious instruction of freedmen, vol. 1, bound with first annual report, 1865.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Committee for Education of Freedmen. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Committee for Education of Freedmen., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Missions., Freedmen--United States--Religious life., Slaves--United States--Emancipation.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:66903
Title:
Abraham Lincoln.
Description:
[Abraham Lincoln.]
Creator:
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896. (photographer)
Subject names:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Topics:
Presidents--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7320
Title:
Sergeant Furney Bryant.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Sergeant Furney Bryant, 1st North Carolina Colored Troops.
Subject names:
United States. Army. North Carolina Colored Infantry Regiment, 1st (1863-1864), Bryant, Furney.
Topics:
African American soldiers--North Carolina.
Geographic subjects:
North Carolina.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7153
Title:
Union Avenue, Philadelphia.
Description:
[Union Avenue, Philadelphia, during the U.S. Sanitary's Commision's Great Central Fair.]
Creator:
R. Newell (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7039

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