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Title: Resurgence of Ku Klux Klan activity seen.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31303 RESURGENCE OF KU KLUX KLAN ACTIVITY SEEN IRMO, S.C. -- Ku Klux Klan activity was reported on the increase across the South as segregationists continued to resist the civil rights drive. Spectators applauded enthusiastically at Irmo, S.C., as Robert Shelton of Alabama, Imperial Wizard of the Klan, denounced the Civil Rights Act before a flaming cross. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-7D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, July 18, 1964, July 18, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Shelton, Robert Marvin., Ku Klux Klan, 1915-, United Klans of America., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Domestic terrorism--South Carolina--Irmo., Racism--South Carolina--Irmo., Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity., Crosses--South Carolina--Irmo.
Geographic subjects: United States., South Carolina, Irmo., South Carolina, Irmo., South Carolina, Irmo., Irmo (S.C.), Alabama
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31303; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-31303
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350291

Title: Negro leaders confer with Attorney General.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31203 NEGRO LEADERS CONFER WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Negro leaders met with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (center) to discuss racial strife in Mississippi and the reported disappearance of three civil rights workers in that state. They are Bishop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, board chairman of the NAACP (right); and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP. Hundred of volunteer students are expected to work in voter registration projects or teach Negroes in “freedom schools” this summer in Mississippi. Many of them are being trained at one-week orientation courses through efforts of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6D-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 24, 1964, June 24, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968., Spottswood, Stephen G. (Stephen Gill), 1897-1974., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Attorneys general--United States., African American bishops--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Mississippi
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31203; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-31203
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350279

Title: Search spreads for missing rights workers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31220 SEARCH SPREADS FOR MISSING RIGHTS WORKERS PHILADELPHIA, Miss. -- River dragging operations continued in the Philadelphia, Miss., area and a search spread to surrounding states a week after the disappearance of three young civil rights workers. As some 500 college students -- trained by the national Council of Churches and supervised in Mississippi by civil rights groups -- reached the state to operate over registration programs and “freedom schools,” the NCC announced it would enlist additional Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish clergymen and lawyers to assist and advise the young people. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-6E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 27, 1964, June 27, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., Mississippi Game & Fish Commission., United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Missing persons--Mississippi--Philadelphia., Missing persons--Investigation--Mississippi--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Philadelphia., Mississippi, Philadelphia., Philadelphia (Miss.), Pearl River (Miss.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31220; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-31220
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350281

Title: Tree dedicated to slain rights worker.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-32124 TREE DEDICATED TO SLAIN RIGHTS WORKER NEW YORK -- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman (center) join hands with students of the Walden School in New York City and sing the civil rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome.” They stand before a tree dedicated to the memory of their son, Andrew, who was one of three volunteer civil rights workers murdered last summer in Mississippi. Andrew was a graduate of Walden School. The student body raised funds to purchase the tree and the plaque. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-2B-65-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, February 5, 1965, February 5, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964--Assassination., Goodman, Carolyn, 1915-2007., Goodman, Robert., Walden School.
Topical Subject(s): Assassination--Mississippi--Philadelphia., Memorial rites and ceremonies--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights movements--United States., High school students--New York (State)--New York., High school boys--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Philadelphia., New York (State), New York., United States., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32124; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-32124
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355941

Title: Dr. King hails arrests in Mississippi.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31907 DR. KING HAILS ARRESTS IN MISSISSIPPI NEW YORK -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., hailed the arrest of 21 white men in Mississippi in connection with the slaying of three civil rights workers as a “first step toward justice” which renewed his faith in democracy. The Baptist clergyman and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his advocacy of nonviolence in the civil rights effort displays photographs of the three young men slain last June 21 near Philadelphia, Miss. They are (from left to right): Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-12B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, circa December 4, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Mississippi Freedom Project., Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964--Assassination., Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964--Assassination., Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964--Assassination.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Arraignment--Mississippi--Meridian., Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., Nobel Prize winners--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York., African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Meridian., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31907; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-31907
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356692

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