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:
A full and complete account of the late awful riots in Philadelphia
Description:
Second sequence has caption title: Tremendous riots in Southwark.
Topics:
Riots--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Anti-Catholicism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Nativism.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177284
Title:
Portrait of Isabella Graham as a young girl.
Description:
Portrait of Isabella Graham, engraved by W.J. Ornsby, N.Y., from a painting by C.C. Ingham, engraved expressly for the Columbian Magazine.
Creator:
Ormsby, W. L. (Waterman Lilly), 1809-1883. (engraver), Ingham, Charles Cromwell, 1796-1863. (Artist)
Subject names:
Graham, Isabella, 1742-1814.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:77841
Title:
John Rodgers.
Description:
Portrait of John Rodgers.
Creator:
Welch, Thomas B., 1814-1874. (engraver), Wood, E. (artist)
Subject names:
Rodgers, John, 1727-1811--Portraits.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5599
Title:
Rev. Samuel Cornish.
Description:
Pastor of the First African Presbyterian Church in the City of N. York.
Creator:
Paradise, John, 1783-1833. (painter), Kearny, Francis, 1785-1837. (engraver)
Subject names:
Cornish, Samuel E. (Samuel Eli), 1795?-1858--Portraits.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--New York (State)--New York--Portraits., Abolitionists--United States--19th century., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--New York (State)--New York.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5185

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