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Text transcribed from caption: William, Patterson, A. McClean, Ben Clark, ? Dr. King Miss Althea William, Att. Clarence Mayfield
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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000., William, Althea., Mayfield, Clarence., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Clark, Ben.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., African Americans--Civil rights.
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344032
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Text transcribed from caption: R-L Dr King + Mr Williams Dr King is receiving Man of the year presented from Mr Williams
Creator:
Mobley, Bob. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., African Americans--Civil rights.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344030
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Address delivered at the Christian Action Conference, Montreat, N.C., August 1965.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, 1929-1968., Jr. (speaker)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
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Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity., Racism--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280656
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Various articles, publications, and educational materials related to the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
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Cannon, Katie G. (author), Early, Gerald Lyn. (author), Dorrien, Gary J. (author), Clinton, Hillary Rodham. (author), Sharma, Arvind. (author), Gilman, Andrew. (author), Swearer, Donald K., 1934-. (author), Williams, Preston N. (author), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Harvard Divinity School., X, Malcolm, 1925-1965., United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation., Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969., Dixon, Maceo.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American civil rights workers., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Liberation theology., Ethics., Black power.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175658
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Written by Katie G. Cannon, Ph.D. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American civil rights workers., Christian ethics.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175291
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Written by Katie G. Cannon. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the course requirements in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Shinn, Roger Lincoln., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American seminarians., Women seminarians., African American civil rights workers., Ethics.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:174364
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Andrew, 1932-, Hollingsworth, Marion., Wright, Bruce, 1917-2005., Thomas, George., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Lowe, Edward., Lorick, Benjamin., Laubach, Eugene., Britton, Ruth.
Topics:
Memorial service.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149181
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Andrew, 1932-, Wright, Bruce, 1917-2005., Thomas, George., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Laubach, Eugene., Hollingsworth, Marion., Britton, Ruth.
Topics:
Memorial service.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149055
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At the end of a service marking the twelfth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the congregation of New York's Riverside Church, was led in singing "We Shall Overcome," by participants including, from left: Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Ms. Marion Hollingsworth, chairperson of the commemorative service; New York Judge Bruce Wright; the Rev. George Thomas, minister of outreach and institutional relations of Riverside Church; the church's pastor, Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.; Dr. Edward Lowe and Benjamin Lorick, both black Christian caucus leaders of the congregation and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Laubach, the church's coordinating minister.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Andrew, 1932-, Hollingsworth, Marion., Wright, Bruce, 1917-2005., Thomas, George., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Lowe, Edward., Lorick, Benjamin., Laubach, Eugene.
Topics:
Memorial service.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148412
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Coretta Scott King, Dr. Harold DeWolf, Dean Jim L. Waits, and Dr. Noel Erskine sing hymnals at an Emory University seminar studying the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Emory University., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., DeWolf, Harold L., 1905-1986., Waits, James L., Erskine, Noel Leo., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Theology--Study and teaching--Georgia--Atlanta., Seminars., Seminars.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147049
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech on the church's role in the Civil Rights Movement on July 6, 1965, at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ held in Chicago, Illinois, July 1-7, 1965. This speech marked the first time King used the phrase "we shall overcome."
Subject names:
United Church of Christ. General Synod., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects.--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:143453
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Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Goode, Richard. (narrator), Carter, Nancy. (director)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Alabama.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116487
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The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:12190
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Speakers at an anti-war rally [From left: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Henry Steel Commage, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. John C. Bennet].
Creator:
Goodwin, John C. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives., Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8020
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PP-22643 POLICE ARREST DR. KING FOR "LOITERING" MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is hustled off to jail by Montgomery police where he was detained for 15 minutes on a charge of loitering. Dr. King, leader of the Negro boycott against Jim Crow buses here in 1956, was arrested outside a City Hall courtroom where he had gone to attend a hearing for a Negro accused of attacking an integration leader. The 29-year-old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church here accused the police of beating and kicking him. He was released in $100 bond. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-9A-58-JS).
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7465
Description:
Dr. Charles Leber and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Overseas Breakfast.
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915-2002. (photographer), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dept. of Stewardship and Promotion. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh, Pa.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Leber, Charles T. (Charles Tudor), 1924-
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7419
Description:
[Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene Carson Blake, and others bow their heads in prayer during the March on Washington. From Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 9].
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7327
Description:
[Hosea L. Williams (standing, left) and Gayraud S. Wilmore (standing, center) at a press conference with Martin Luther King, Jr. (seated, center) and Coretta Scott King (seated, right)]
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., Wilmore, Gayraud S., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7202
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the Overseas Breakfast in Hotel Webster Hall.
Creator:
Byers, Arthur M., 1915- (photographer), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dept. of Stewardship and Promotion. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh, Pa.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7045
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

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