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Title:
March leaders confer with president.
Description:
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
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake arrested.
Description:
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.
Creator:
Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7398
Title:
Now advances someday.
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
Title:
Clergyman arrested in anti-segregation fight.
Description:
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen have been among some 300 persons arrested in a series of efforts to integrate the privately owned Gwynn Oak Amusement Park. In one of the anti-segregation demonstrations outside the park, a minister donned a red, white and blue "Uncle Sam" outfit to symbolize the fight for racial equality. He was promptly arrested on trespassing charges. The clergyman, the Rev. David Andrews, assistant chaplain at Morgan State College, is shown here being taken into custody by police.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Andrews, David., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7310
Title:
Hosea L. Williams, Gayraud S. Wilmore, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King.
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
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake at demonstration.
Description:
Blake, in straw hat, is preceded by William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, and followed by Roman Catholic Father Joseph Connolly, as group moves in on Gwynn Oak Park to challenge segregation. [From Presbyterian Life, August 1, 1963, p. 25.]
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Woodlawn--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak Park (Woodlawn, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7105
Title:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Description:
The March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. Man farthest from the left, front row, is Jon Regier, head of the Division of Christian Life and Mission [of the National Council of Churches of Christ], a key NCC official supporting all civil rights actions of the Council.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Regier, Jon L., 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:7066
Title:
Horsing-around with a load of dynamite.
Description:
Horsing-around with a load of dynamite. Christian Beacon, 8-8-63. [p. 62].
Creator:
Lockman, Vic. (artist)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6319
Title:
Portrait of Furman Templeton.
Description:
Furman Templeton. [Presbyterian Life, Aug 15, 1963, p. 25].
Subject names:
Templeton, Furman--Portraits.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5147
Title:
March on Washington.
Description:
Large crowd around Washington Monument. [Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 6].
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5125

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