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- Title
- NCC officials face Mississippi press.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31163 NCC OFFICIALS FACE MISSISSIPPI PRESS JACKSON, Miss. -- Christian motivation behind civil rights programs in Mississippi is stressed by two National Council of Churches race relations leaders as they meet reporters in the concourse of the airport at Jackson. Dr. 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, explained the summer student program which will bring some 500-1000 college students to the state to conduct “freedom schools” for Negroes, and a long-range anti-poverty “Delta Ministry” to be launched in the fall under NCC auspices. The Council was conducting orientation sessions for summer program volunteers, who will work under the direction of civil rights groups in the democracy education and voter registration effort. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EC-JM-6C-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Chambers, Elsie May. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Clergy--Mississippi--Jackson., Press conferences--Mississippi--Jackson.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Jackson (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31163; 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-31163
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350224