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Arrest of Eugene Carson Blake, 1963.

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 aspects

URL:

https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310

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The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963.

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