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:
Christopher House.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago- Christopher House- 1618 Fullerton Ave.
Creator:
Hornby & Freiberg. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5120
Title:
Thanksgiving baskets.
Description:
Thanksgiving baskets [p. 92].
Subject names:
Olivet Institute (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6112
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Council on Church and Race exhibit.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161378
Title:
Lindberg Steel Treating Company.
Description:
Burnette Dowler (l.) of Princeton Theological Seminary and Alvin Evans of Emmanuel College, formerly a Canadian "Mountie," wear shields to protect faces from heat of furnace which hardens knife blades at Lindberg Steel Treating Company, Chicago. [From Presbyterian Life, November 1, 1952, p. 17].
Subject names:
Dowler, Burnette., Evans, Alvin., Princeton Theological Seminary., Emmanuel College (Boston, Mass.)
Topics:
Church work with the working class--Illinois--Chicago., Iron and steel workers--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5080
Title:
Christopher House.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago, Christopher House, Vacation Bible School [children with baskets on front sidewalk].
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago., Christian vacation schools--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5092
Title:
The mob attacking the warehouse of Godfrey Gilman & Co.
Description:
The mob attacking the warehouse of Godfrey Gilman & Co., Alton, Ill., on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, at the time Lovejoy was murdered and his press destroyed.
Subject names:
Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8794
Title:
Meals on Wheels.
Description:
Erie Neighbor House, Chicago, Ill. Woman enters car in preparation for distributing Meals on Wheels.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Erie Neighborhood House (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago--20th century., Meals on wheels programs--Illinois--Chicago--20th century., Church work with older people--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5392
Title:
Bohemian Settlement House.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago-Bohemian Settlement house- game room of boys' building.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago., Church work with children--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5094
Title:
Lincoln family at worship.
Description:
Lincoln family at worship in the old First Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois.
Subject names:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865., First Presbyterian Church (Springfield, Ill.)
Geographic subjects:
Springfield (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7135
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Father Luis Haramillo reports on La Nueva Raza (the Chicano movement.)
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Jaramillo, Luis.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Chicano movement., Mexican American clergy., Mexican American political activists.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161366
Title:
Archeologist challenges ideas about ritual killings.
Description:
Archeologist Lawrence Stager (left) of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, pauses a moment with one of his graduate student co-workers on their most recent excavation this past summer of the burial ground of the ancient city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. The urn near Stager's hand is typical of the burial urns that contain the incinerated remains of the children sacrificed to the gods by the Carthaginians.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago. Oriental Institute., Stager, Lawrence E.
Topics:
Child sacrifice--Carthage (Extinct city), Archaeology--Carthage (Extinct city)
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Carthage (Extinct city), Qarṭājannah (Tunisia)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148580
Title:
A History of Social Justice at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
Description:
Also includes a brief history of its predecessor churches dating back to 1843.
Subject names:
Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.)--History., More Light Presbyterians., Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns., Sindt, David, 1940-1986.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153445
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Senior Steve Larson, Lewis and Clark College, who addressed the General Assembly breakfast on the Environmental Crisis.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Lewis and Clark Community College., Larson, Steve.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Students--Political activity., Environmentalism--Religious aspects--Christianity., Christian college students.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161358
Title:
Samaritan House, Chicago, Illinois.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago- Samaritan House- 2601 W. Superiot St new location.
Creator:
Gates Photo. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5109
Title:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. struck by a rock.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is struck by a rock during a march in Chicago on August 5, 1966.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7010
Title:
Erie Chapel Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
Description:
Presytery of Chicago- Erie Chapel Institute.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5151
Title:
Neighborhood House Meeting.
Description:
Neighborhood House Meeting [p. 59].
Subject names:
Olivet Institute (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6111
Title:
Presbytery of Chicago food relief program.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago. Feeding children- Jan. Feb. Mar. 1932. Supplementing City Relief- one meal a day. Average of 172 a day for 11 weeks.
Creator:
Moffett-Russell. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Food relief--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5057
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Mr. Herman Holmes, Acting Director, National Black Economic Development Conference.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), National Black Economic Development Conference., Holmes, Herman.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., African American civil rights workers., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161351
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Representatives of Women's Liberation.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Women's Liberation Movement (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Women political activists., Feminism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161352

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