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Description:On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.Creator:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.Topics:Civil rights--Religious aspectsURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310
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Description:Documentary on Palestinian refugees, co-produced by the NCCC and CBS News, 1967.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., CBS News.Topics:Israel-Arab War, 1967--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.Geographic subjects:Palestine.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141948
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Description:Scott Anderson interviewed by Samantha Piccolo (Presbyterian Historical Society, Director of Development). Anderson is a Presbyterian minister, serving as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church (Madison, Wis.) since 2016. Born in Sacramento, California in 1955, Anderson was ordained in 1983. In 1990, a member of his congregation outed him, forcing him to set aside his ordination. He later served as executive director of the California Council of Churches, and executive director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches. In 2011, Anderson returned to ordained ministry.Creator:Anderson, Scott, 1955- (interviewee)Subject names:Anderson, Scott, 1955--Interviews.Topics:Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140895
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Description:Laird J. Stuart delivers a sermon at First Presbyterian Church, Portland, Oregon, March 14, 2010.Creator:Stuart, Laird J., 1933-2018. (speaker)Topics:Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140885
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Title:Description:The true story of the brutal murder of Korean exchange student In Ho Oh by a group of eleven black teenagers in Philadelphia during the spring of 1958. The film examines the background and trial of the teenagers, and the response from In Ho Oh's Christian parents, in the form of a letter, asking for forgiveness and mercy for the murderers. The film ends with the funeral ceremony at Old Pine St. Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.Subject names:Oh, In Ho, 1931-1958., Byers, Arthur M., 1915-, Young, Lloyd E., Martin, W. Burton (Walter Burton), 1915-, Carmichael, H. Kenn (Herbert Kenneth), 1908-, Douglas, Hugh., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.Topics:Juvenile delinquency., Juvenile homicide., Forgiveness.Geographic subjects:Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140439
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Description:Edler Hawkins speaking on the role of the Presbyterian Church in the civil rights struggle. Presented at General Assembly, probably 1964.Creator:Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (speaker)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (176th : 1964 : Oklahoma City, Okla.)Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians., Civil rights--United States.Geographic subjects:Oklahoma City (Okla.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116235
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Description:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Broadcasting and Film Commission motion picture on Cuban refugees resettled in Newark, N.J. after 1962.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Broadcasting and Film Commission. (creator)Topics:Cubans--New Jersey--Newark., Refugees--Cuba.Geographic subjects:Newark (N.J.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:111121
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Description:Protestant Council of the City of New York panel discussion with James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dr. Thomas C. Kilgore, Jr., focusing on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963. A program in the television series: Our Protestant heritage.Subject names:Baldwin, James, 1924-1987., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998.Topics:Civil rights--United States., Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham., 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963.Geographic subjects:United States--Race relations., Birmingham (Ala.)--History--Bombardment--Sept. 15, 1963.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71692
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Title:Description:The church at work in unusual Christian witness. Evangelism at work through a church-based narcotics clinic, an apartment house ministry, a legal aid clinic, work with unwed mothers, and a church-administered coffeehouse.Creator:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Evangelism, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Audio Visual Dept.Topics:Home missions, Institutional missions, Church and social problems, Evangelistic workURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11014
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Title:Description:Documents the agency of the National Council of Churches offering economic and social welfare assistance to the underprivileged in the delta area of Mississippi.Creator:Roos, Barbara. (contributor), Thompson, Ken. (contributor)Subject names:Delta Ministry., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.Topics:Missions--Mississippi., African Americans--Missions.Geographic subjects:Delta (Miss. : Region)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4288
