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 Widow.
Description:
A Widow.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Ministerial Relief and Sustentation--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8472
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:
Edward L.R. Elson in Vietnam.
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives., Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993.
Topics:
Military chaplains., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Chaplains.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5605
Title:
Death-bed of Lincoln.
Description:
Death-bed of Lincoln. [print reproduction of a painting by John H. Littlefield; Reproduced through the courtesy of the Rosenbach Co.]
Creator:
Littlefield, John H. (artist)
Subject names:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Death and burial.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7058
Title:
Chaplain J. T. Harbert.
Description:
Ready for a "quick" service in the desert, Chaplain J. T. Harbert in "fatigues" (Calif. Desert).
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Camp and Church Activities--Archives., Harbert, Jason T., 1899-
Topics:
Chaplains--California.
Geographic subjects:
California.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5534
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:
The house itself - It's a large square building located on a corner.
Description:
The house itself - It's a large square building located on a corner.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Donaldina Cameron House.
Topics:
Home missions--California--San Francisco--20th century., Church work with Asian Americans--California--San Francisco--20th century., Asian Americans--Missions--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6632
Title:
Portrait of Maggie Kuhn.
Description:
Portrait of Maggie Kuhn.
Creator:
Bryan, Julie Jensen. (photographer)
Subject names:
Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995.--Portraits., Kuhn, Maggie, 1905-1995--Archives.
Topics:
Women social reformers--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10123
Title:
Bulgarian refugees.
Description:
Sponsored by Bethany Church - Miliwaukee.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Bulgaria., Refugees--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Geographic subjects:
Milwaukee (Wis.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83399
Title:
The Chaplain's Medal.
Description:
[Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1920] The Chaplain's Medal.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Federal Council Bulletin., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., Military chaplains--Medals., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8458
Title:
NCC Officials Face Mississippi Press.
Description:
Eugene Carson Blake, left, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and chairman of the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, and Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, [meet with reporters in the concourse of the Jackson, Mississippi airport to explain the Delta Ministry's summer student program].
Creator:
Chambers, Elsie M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Jackson (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7199
Title:
William P. Thompson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Description:
William P. Thompson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey at National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), about 1965.
Subject names:
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Thompson, William P., 1918-, National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Vice-Presidents--United States., Presbyterian Church--Government.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1961
Title:
Old Buttonwood.
Description:
[The Presbyterian Ministers' Fund Historical Series No. 1] Old Buttonwood.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Ministers' Fund., First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7090
Title:
Vocational school of the World Church Council.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Hungary., Refugees--Austria.
Geographic subjects:
Austria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83402
Title:
Youth protest liquor bill.
Description:
Montgomery, Ala.--Teenagers representing the Methodist Youth Assembly picket the state capitol here in protest against a bill that would permit cities to legalize liquor sales. Under present law, counties make the decision. Protestant clergy, laymen and young people from many parts of Alabama stormed the capitol to protest the bill, introduced by Senator George Quarles. Following a hearing by the Senate Temperance Committee, the Quarles Measure was killed by a 4-3 vote. Leading the picket line were (left to right) Dan Jackson and O.C. Brown.
Creator:
Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Temperance and religion--Alabama--Montgomery.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11022
Title:
Gayraud Wilmore leading an anti-apartheid demonstration in Rochester, New York, 1979.
Description:
Leading at anti-apartheid demonstration in front of a bank in Rochester, N.Y., investing in S.A. Circa winter 1979.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921- (creator)
Subject names:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921---Archives., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American clergy., Anti-apartheid activists--United States., Anti-apartheid movements--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Rochester (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160504
Title:
President Woodrow Wilson.
Description:
President Woodrow Wilson.
Subject names:
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Topics:
Presidents--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8767
Title:
Home for Aged Couples and Men.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Home for Aged Couples and Aged Men at Bala. [From p. 295.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Home for Aged Couples and Aged Men of the State of Pennsylvania.
Topics:
Old age homes--Pennsylvania--Bala-Cynwyd.
Geographic subjects:
Bala-Cynwyd (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5432
Title:
Human Sexuality Committee hearing at the 203rd General Assembly, Baltimore, Maryland, 1991.
Description:
Human Sexuality Committee hearing in the plenary hall.
Creator:
Rice, Ronald B., 1937- (photographer)
Subject names:
Rice, Ronald B., 1937---Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (203rd : 1991 : Baltimore, Md.)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Sexual orientation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146305
Title:
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller aboard the USS Krishna.
Description:
NCC President in War Zone: Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches, conducts services for officers and men of the USS Krishna, Naval supply ship off the coast of South Vietnam. Bishop Mueller of Indianapolis, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, spent a week in the South Vietnam war zone during the Easter season. He was accompanied on the annual visit to servicemen overseas -- for the first time this year to a war area-- by Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of New York, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, secretary for program of the NCC's Division of Christian Life and Mission.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Mueller, Reuben H., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Evangelical United Brethren Church., Buschmeyer, Fred S., Lee, J. Oscar., United Church of Christ.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--War work--Churches.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4950

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