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Title: To the White House.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Date Created: 1965, February 9, 1965, February 9, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., White House (Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Voter registration--Alabama--Selma., Vice presidents--United States., Suffrage--United States., Civil rights--United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32133; 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-32133_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355792

Title: Dr. King meets with president.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-32133 DR. KING MEETS WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is escorted by Vice President Humphrey to the White House for a meeting with President Johnson to discuss the Negro voter registration drive in Selma, Ala. After the conference, the noted Negro Baptist leader said the President “made it clear to me that he plans to offer legislation to Congress specifically on voting rights.” Dr. King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, spent five days in the Dallas County, Ala., jail. He was arrested on charges of parading without a police permit in Selma where he led demonstrations for Negro registrations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-2B-65-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, February 9, 1965, February 9, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., White House (Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Voter registration--Alabama--Selma., Vice presidents--United States., Suffrage--United States., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., Alabama, Selma., United States., United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), Selma (Ala.), Alabama, North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32133; 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-32133
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355943

Title: Religious leaders greet woman in famed 'bus' case.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29797 RELIGIOUS LEADERS GREET WOMAN IN FAMED ‘BUS’ CASE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Three religious leaders participating in the March on Washington, greet a Negro woman whose arrest made headlines in 1955. Mrs. Rosa Parks is shown with, left to right, Father John F. Cronin of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; and Rabbi Joachin Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. In 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested when she refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give her seat to a white person. Her case was one of several that aroused the nation, helped weld Negroes and white in campaigns that culminated in the March on Washington. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-WN-8E-63-W)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., American Jewish Congress., Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., National Catholic Welfare Conference. Social Action Department., Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Rabbis--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29797; 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-29797
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7253

Title: The president and 'March' leaders.
Description: Alternate caption when the photo was reissued in November 1963 on the occasion of President Kennedy's death.
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (author)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Whitney M., Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Ahmann, Mathew H., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Lewis, John, 1940-2020., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Presidents--United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29807; 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-29807_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357746

Title: March leaders confer with president.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29807 MARCH LEADERS CONFER WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Strong bi-partisan support will be necessary to push civil rights legislation through Congress, President Kennedy told leaders of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drw over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, for left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Mathew 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. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Whitney M., Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Ahmann, Mathew H., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Presidents--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29807; 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-29807
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7220

Title: Arriving for march.
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (author)
Date Created: 1963, August 27, 1963, August 27, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Washington National Airport., Newman, Paul, 1925-2008., Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Emerson, Faye.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Actors--Washington (D.C.), Singers--Washington (D.C.), African American singers--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29846; 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_P-29846_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357937

Title: Dr. Martin Luther King addresses Washington marchers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29812 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ADDRESSES WASHINGTON MARCHERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A stirring climax to ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was reached when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stepped to the rostrum and called on the nation to end racial discrimination “now.” The Baptist minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was widely hailed as the “civil rights and religious leader” of the event. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-9A-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Speeches, addresses, etc., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), African American clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States, Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29812; 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_P-29812
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358341

Title: Leader in inter-racial living.
Description: Text transcribed from annotations: #882 LEADER IN INTER-RACIAL LIVING Mrs. Harper Sibley, of Rochester, N.Y., president of the United Council of Church Women, who refuses to take part in any meeting of that group if it is held in cities where all facilities are not available to persons of all races and creeds. At the latest conference of the United Council of Church Women, just closed at Washington, D.C., Mrs. Sibley lived at the headquarters offices of the National Council of Negro Women. She is shown at a desk in the building making plans for the day’s sessions, which were held at the First Congregational Church in Washington.
Creator Name(s): Ferras. (photographer)
Date Created: 1945
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Sibley, Georgiana Harper., United Council of Church Women--Congresses., National Council of Negro Women.
Topical Subject(s): Christian women--Washington (D.C.), Women religious leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 882; 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_882
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358888

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