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Title: Civil rights prayer vigil.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30952 CIVIL RIGHTS PRAYER VIGIL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish theology students stand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where, they said, they planned to continue a silent prayer vigil for civil rights until the pending legislation is made law. From left to right are Steve Geckeler of Union Theological Seminary, New York; Bob Ekhaml of Paulist Fathers Seminary in Washington, H. Richard Lewis of the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York; Evelyn Bain of New York’s Union Seminary, and Sheldon Lewis of Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-4E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Lewis, H. Richard., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Students., Geckeler, Steve., Ekhaml, Bob., Paulist Fathers Seminary (Washington, D.C.)--Students., Jewish Institute of Religion (New York, N.Y.), Bain, Evelyn., Jewish Theological Seminary of America--Students., Lewis, Sheldon, 1941-
Topical Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Prayer--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30952; 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-30952
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348436

Title: Religious groups support civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31068 RELIGIOUS GROUPS SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS PHILADELPHIA-Representatives of church groups demonstrate for racial justice at an “interreligious witness for civil rights” in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall Square. The meeting was attended by several hundred persons from about 25 cooperating religious groups. Aim of the demonstration was an early passage of the civil rights bill in Congress. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-5E-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, May 24, 1964, May 24, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topical Subject(s): Clergy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Unitarian churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Interdenominational cooperation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Geographic subjects: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., United States., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Philadelphia (Pa.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31068; 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-31068
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350266

Title: President urges religious civil rights support.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30963 PRESIDENT URGES RELIGIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS SUPPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- America’s religious community was challenged by President Johnson to “reawaken the conscience” of the nation and make the civil rights bill -- which he predicted would pass -- an effective force in the struggle for equal justice. A total of 177 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen heard the President in the East Room of the White House on the day following a mass interreligious convocation at Georgetown University to demand passage of the civil rights bill. Seated under painting to the President’s right, from right to left, are top Protestant, Catholic and Jewish spokesmen: Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America; Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and a vice chairman of the National Council of Churches’ race commission; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, NCC race commission chairman and chief administrative officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington, and Rabbi Lewis A. Weintraub, president of the Washington Board of Rabbis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-DC-5A-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 29, 1964, April 29, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., White House (Washington, D.C.), O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Weintraub, Lewis A., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Topical Subject(s): Presidents--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Interdenominational cooperation--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30963; 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-30963
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348439

Title: Leaders at interreligious civil rights rally.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30951 LEADERS AT INTERRELIGIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS RALLY WASHINGTON, D. C. -- These were the leaders of the Interreligious Convocation on Civil Rights attended by some 5,000 clergy and lay people at Georgetown University in Washington, held in support of the civil rights bill in Congress. Sponsors of the convocation were the National Council of Churches, National Catholic Welfare Conference and Synagogue Council of America. Left to right are: Catholic Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington, who presided; Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chairman of the NCC’s Commission on Religion and Race and chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.; Catholic Archbishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore; and Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, vice-chairman of the NCC commission. The overflow crowd jammed both the Catholic university’s gymnasium and nearby auditorium. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-4D-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 28, 1964, April 28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., National Catholic Welfare Conference., Synagogue Council of America., O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Shehan, Lawrence, 1898-1984., Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Interreligious cooperation--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30951; 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-30951
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348435

Title: Episcopal clergyman ends long civil rights fast.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-31012 EPISCOPAL CLERGYMAN ENDS LONG CIVIL RIGHTS FAST CHESTER, Pa. -- The Rev. Clayton K. Hewett, 30 pounds lighter after an 18-day hunger strike in protest to racial segregation in schools at Chester, Pa., smiles at the youngest of his six children. Six-month-old Maria Theresa is held by another daughter, Darrale Jeanne, 13. Mrs. Hewett is at right. The clergyman, with one arm in a sling, ended his fast after Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton launched an effort to solve the Chester school segregation problem. He was arrested on several charges during a protest demonstration and after 10 days in jail, the last three in “complete fast” without liquids, was hospitalized. For the last eight days he continued his protest, accepting only juice and vitamins. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5C-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, May 13, 1964, May 13, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Hewett, Clayton Kennedy., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hewett, Anna Grace Carlson., Hewett, Therese-Marie., Hewett, Darryl Jeanne.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Chester., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation in education--Pennsylvania--Chester., Spouses of clergy--Pennsylvania--Chester., Children of clergy--Pennsylvania--Chester., Hunger strikes--Pennsylvania--Chester.
Geographic subjects: Pennsylvania, Chester., Pennsylvania, Chester., Pennsylvania, Chester., Pennsylvania, Chester., Pennsylvania, Chester., Chester (Pa.), North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Delaware--Chester
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-31012; 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-31012
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348329

Title: Protestant civil rights march to Capitol.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-31035 PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH TO CAPITOL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some 270 Protestant ministers and laymen from 41 states and the District of Columbia marched to the U.S. Capitol and petitioned the Senate for swift passage of a strong civil rights bill. The procession formed at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, where services urging an end to racial injustice were being held daily, and stopped briefly at the U.S. Supreme Court building for prayers commemorating the 10th anniversary of the decision against public school segregation. The procession, which was followed by visits to Senators, was organized by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-DC-5D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, May 18, 1964, May 18, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Ecumenical movement--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-31035; 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-31035
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348432

Title: Negroes pray in racial demonstration.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31110 NEGROES PRAY IN RACIAL DEMONSTRATION ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.-A group of Negroes pauses to pray in a park while marching on downtown St. Augustine to demonstrate against racial discrimination. Many Negroes, as well as some whites, have been staging demonstrations in this southern city which was been the scene of racial strife in recent months. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6A-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 1964, June 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine., Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine., Prayer--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects: United States., Florida, Saint Augustine., Florida, Saint Augustine., Florida, Saint Augustine., Saint Augustine (Fla.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31110; 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-31110
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350267

Title: Riot erupts over Cleveland school integration.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30547 RIOT ERUPTS OVER CLEVELAND SCHOOL INTEGRATION CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Several clergymen joined picket lines in Cleveland, Ohio, to demonstrate in support of full school integration. Here a bystander, about to be restrained, grabs the arm of a picket in front of an East Side grade school. While a few people were knocked on the ground, order was restored quickly at this location. At the Murray Hill school, however, an unruly crowd of about 400 -- mostly young men -- stopped scheduled picketing with a barrage of eggs, fruit and bottles. Police had to use their clubs to stop the attack. Integration leaders called off the demonstration in order to avert further violence. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-1E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, January 29, 1964, January 29, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Ohio--Cleveland., Offenses against public safety--Ohio--Cleveland., School integration--Ohio--Cleveland., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., United States., Cleveland (Ohio), North and Central America--United States--Ohio--Cuyahoga--Cleveland
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30547; 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-30547
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353843

Title: Baptists asked to support rights bill.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-30786 BAPTISTS ASKED TO SUPPORT RIGHTS BILL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Southern Baptist leaders hear President Johnson ask the support of denominational leaders for his civil rights program. Speaking in the Rose Garden outside his White House office, the chief executive said that “no group of Christians has a greater responsibility in civil rights than Southern Baptists.” Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, he said, “are part of the power structure in many communities of our land,” and he called for the clergy’s aid in securing Congressional passage of rights legislation. More than 150 clergymen and lay leaders of a SBC seminar on Christian leadership heard Mr. Johnson’s appeal. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-WN-3D-64-2)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, March 25, 1964, March 25, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Southern Baptist Convention., White House (Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Presidents--United States., Civil rights--United States., Civil rights movements--Southern States.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., United States., Southern States., White House Gardens (Washington, D.C.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-30786; 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-30786
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348422

Title: Demonstrators pray before dispersing.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31023 DEMONSTRATORS PRAY BEFORE DISPERSING CAMBRIDGE, Md. -- A Roman Catholic priest leads demonstrators in prayer at Cambridge, Md., as they prepare to disperse. The group, which included Protestant and Catholic clergymen, had gathered at the courthouse to protest the arrest of a demonstration leader, Mrs. Gloria Richardson, a Negro. Leading the prayers is Father Louis Jaramillo of the Catholic University of America. To his right is Brig. Gen. G. M. Gelston, commander of the Maryland National Guard forces, who ordered the group to leave the area. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5C-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, May 13, 1964, May 13, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Gelston, George Morris., Jaramillo, Louis., Richardson, Gloria, 1922-2021.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Cambridge., Prayer--Maryland--Cambridge., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Generals--Maryland.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Cambridge., Maryland, Cambridge., United States., Maryland., Cambridge (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Dorchester--Cambridge
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-31023; 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-31023
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348327

Title: Rabbi beaten in Mississippi voter drive.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31274 RABBI BEATEN IN MISSISSIPPI VOTER DRIVE HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Segregationists wielding metal bars attacked Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, Ohio, and two other white civil rights workers for their voter registration work with Negroes at Hattiesburg, Miss. He is shown leaving a hospital there after being treated for severe head and body injuries. The rabbi is accompanied (left) by the Rev. Charles W. Rawlings, director of the Cleveland Church Federation’s Office of Religion and Race. The Hattiesburg voter registration campaign, supervised by the National Council of Churches’ race commission, has been maintained since last winter on an interreligious basis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-7C-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, July 11, 1964, July 11, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996., Rawlings, Charles W., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Rabbis--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Victims of violent crimes--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Hattiesburg (Miss.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31274; 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-31274
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350284

Title: Negroes in 'massive assault' on bias.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31141 NEGROES IN ‘MASSIVE ASSAULT’ ON BIAS ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.-More racial demonstrations were in store for St. Augustine as Negro integration leaders held a press conference to announce the “beginning of a massive assault on segregation” in the city--scene of violence between whites and Negroes. Clergy leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are seated at table during the press interview, with pickets carrying signs standing the background. Left to right are Dr. R. B. Hayling, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. Ralph Abernathy. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6B-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 10, 1964, June 10, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Hayling, Robert Bagner., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Florida--Saint Augustine., Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine., Press conferences--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects: Florida, Saint Augustine., United States., Florida, Saint Augustine., Florida, Saint Augustine., Florida, Saint Augustine., Saint Augustine (Fla.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31141; 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-31141
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350274

Title: University chaplains "Walk for Reconciliation"
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30532 UNIVERSITY CHAPLAINS "WALK FOR RECONCILIATION" DETROIT, Mich. -- Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish chaplains and their assistants from Wayne State University conducted a "walk for reconciliation" through downtown Detroit, Mich., to express an "ecumenical imperative toward human solidarity" in all areas of life, particularly race relations. Prayers were offered at each stop on their route -- a store-front church, a theater, a campus religions [sic. religious] center and an apartment building. Participants included, from left to right: the Rev. Malcolm Boyd, Protestant Episcopal chaplain; William Jacobs, lay assistant at the university's Catholic Newman Center; Father Joseph Walsh, director of the Newman Center; Rabbi Max Kapustin of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, and the Rev. William Hutchinson, Methodist, of the Wesley Foundation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (HW-D-1E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Wayne State University--Chaplains., Boyd, Malcolm., Jacobs, William., Walsh, Joseph., Kapustin, Max., Hutchinson, William.
Topical Subject(s): Chaplains--Michigan--Detroit., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights demonstrations--Michigan--Detroit., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Geographic subjects: Michigan, Detroit., Michigan, Detroit., United States., Detroit (Mich.), North and Central America--United States--Michigan--Wayne--Detroit
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30532; 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-30532
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353839

Title: Bishops' wives back integration: two jailed.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30805 BISHOPS’ WIVES BACK INTEGRATION: TWO JAILED BOSTON -- Three wives of Protestant Episcopal bishops are shown as they boarded a plane in Boston enroute to Jacksonville, Fla., where they assisted in integration efforts. A Negro child wishes them bon voyage. Two of them were arrested in Jacksonville. At far right is Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, wife of the retired Episcopal Bishop of Central New York and mother of Massachusetts’ governor; she was arrested on March 31. At center is Mrs. John M. Burgess, wife of the Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts and first Negro bishop of the Church in the U.S. Mrs. Burgess was jailed March 30 by Jacksonville police when she sought service in a motel cocktail lounge. At left is Mrs. D.J. Campbell, wife of the former Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles. Mrs. Peabody, 72, said they took part in the segregation protest like any “three nice peaceful women.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-3D-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, March 29, 1964, March 29, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Peabody, Mary., Burgess, Esther Julia Taylor., Campbell, Hester Hocking., Episcopal Church.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--St. Augustine., Spouses of clergy--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects: United States., Florida, St. Augustine., Massachusetts, Boston., Boston (Mass.), St. Augustine (Fla.), North and Central America--United States--Massachusetts--Suffolk--Boston
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30805; 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-30805
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348324

Title: Clergy pickets segregationist speakers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-31033 CLERGY PICKETS SEGREGATIONIST SPEAKERS ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Priests and Brothers of the Washington, D.C., area picket a segregationist Southern governor. Carrying placards, the clergy demonstrated at a Rockville, Md., high school rally featuring Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama. Gov. Wallace, carrying his campaign into several Northern states, was on the Democratic ballot in the Maryland Presidential Primary. Noted Democrats, including Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, visited Maryland to oppose his segregationist views. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5D-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, May 16, 1964, May 16, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Catholic Church--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Rockville., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Governors--Alabama., Primaries--Maryland., Clergy--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Rockville., Alabama., Maryland., Washington (D.C.), Rockville (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Montgomery--Rockville
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. C-31033; 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_C-31033
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348409

Title: Murdered rights worker attended NCC sessions.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31383 MURDERED RIGHTS WORKER ATTENDED NCC SESSIONS OXFORD, Ohio -- Andrew Goodman, 20-year-old New Yorker murdered in Mississippi with two other civil rights workers, is shown attending an orientation lecture at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, before going to the Southern state. The bodies of Mr. Goodman and his companions -- Michael H. Schwerner, 24, another white student from New York, and James E. Chaney, 21, a Meridian, Miss., Negro -- were found buried deep in a dam embankment near Philadelphia, Miss., where they disappeared June 21. All three had attended the advance training sessions at Oxford, conducted by the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-8B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 20, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964., Western College for Women., Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964., Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Violence against--United States., Training--Ohio--Oxford.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., United States., Ohio, Oxford., Oxford (Ohio), Philadelphia (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Ohio--Butler--Oxford
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. PC-31383; 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-31383
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:349195

Title: Firemen rout demonstrators in church.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31137 FIREMEN ROUT DEMONSTRATORS IN CHURCH TUSCALOOSA, Ala.-Firemen use high pressure water hoses to rout Negro demonstrators who took refuge in a Baptist church in Tuscaloosa. Some of them retaliated by throwing sticks, bottles, stones and other missiles from the building. Later police fired tear gas shells into the church. More than 90 persons were arrested as police blocked a march into the downtown area. Barred on the ground that they had received no permit to march, about 500 demonstrators retreated into the church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-5B-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 9, 1964, June 9, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., First African Baptist Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), Southern Baptist Convention.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Tuscaloosa., Civil rights movements--United States., African American churches--Alabama--Tuscaloosa., Church buildings--Alabama--Tuscaloosa., Police brutality--Alabama--Tuscaloosa.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Tuscaloosa., United States., Alabama, Tuscaloosa., Alabama, Tuscaloosa., Alabama, Tuscaloosa., Tuscaloosa (Ala.), Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31137; 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-31137
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350273

Title: Clergyman's widow and child picket governors.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-31133 CLERGYMAN’S WIDOW AND CHILD PICKET GOVERNORS CLEVELAND -- Mrs. Bruce W. Klunder, widow of a United Presbyterian minister accidentally killed by a bulldozer in a racial demonstration in April, joined pickets in a protest march at the National Governors Conference in Cleveland. Accompanied by her daughter Janice, Mrs. Klunder marched around the conference’s hotel headquarters carrying signs. She said she joined the race protest to continue the work of her husband, the minister who died when a bulldozer back up over his prone body as he participated in a demonstration at a Cleveland school construction site. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6B-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 8, 1964, June 8, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Klunder, Joanne M., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Janice., National Governors’ Conference--Congresses.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Ohio--Cleveland., Spouses of clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Children of clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., United States., Cleveland (Ohio)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31133; 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-31133
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350219

Title: Charred cross symbolizes racial protest.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-30969 CHARRED CROSS SYMBOLIZES RACIAL PROTEST PITTSBURGH -- More than 1,000 Methodists knelt, linked hands and sang “We Shall Overcome” as a charred cross -- burned by the Ku Klux Klan on the campus of predominantly Negro Tougaloo Southern Christian College near Jackson, Miss. -- is carried past the Pittsburgh Civic Arena where the denomination held its Quadrennial General Conference. The demonstration, against segregation in general as well as within the Methodist Church -- started at midnight with a prayer vigil and continued until Conference sessions were underway. The cross is carried by Austin Moore of Chicago, a student at the Mississippi college. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, May 2, 1964, May 2, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Tougaloo College--Students., Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Moore, Austin C., Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Topical Subject(s): Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American college students--Illinois--Chicago., Historically Black colleges and universities--Mississippi--Jackson., Universities and colleges--Mississippi--Jackson., College students--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects: United States., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Illinois, Chicago., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Illinois, Chicago., Pittsburgh (Pa.), Jackson (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Allegheny--Pittsburgh
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-30969; 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-30969
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348405

Title: Segregationist governor picketed by priest.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30908 SEGREGATIONIST GOVERNOR PICKETED BY PRIEST INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, an avowed segregationist, is picketed by a Roman Catholic priest, Father Bernard Strange, as he campaigns in Indianapolis, Ind., for votes in the state’s Democratic Presidential primary. Father Strange is pastor of St. Rita’s church in that city. The states rights advocate has drawn sharp opposition from Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen in his anti-civil rights invasion of Northern states. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-I-4D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 20, 1964, April 20, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Strange, Bernard Lawrence., Catholic Church--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Indiana--Indianapolis., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Primaries--Indiana., Political campaigns--Indiana--Indianapolis., Governors--Alabama.
Geographic subjects: Indiana, Indianapolis., Indiana., Indiana, Indianapolis., Alabama., Indianapolis (Ind.), North and Central America--United States--Indiana--Marion--Indianapolis
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30908; 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-30908
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348340

Title: NCC trains students for Mississippi program.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-31179 NCC TRAINS STUDENTS FOR MISSISSIPPI PROGRAM OXFORD, Ohio -- Problems expected to be encountered by college students going to Mississippi this summer to conduct voter registration and education sessions for Negroes are outlined at an orientation session at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio. The week-long training period was held by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, in cooperation with civil rights groups which are sponsoring the “freedom schools.” Here, the Rev. Bruce Hanson, NCC official heading the orientation program, is flanked by Robert Moses (left), of New York, director of the Mississippi program for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and James Forman of Atlanta, executive secretary of the SNCC. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-6C-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 18, 1964, June 18, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Western College for Women--Students., Mississippi Freedom Project., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Hanson, Donald Bruce., Moses, Robert Parris., Forman, James, 1928-2005., United Church of Christ--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Ohio--Oxford., College students--Ohio--Oxford., Women college students--Ohio--Oxford., Clergy--Ohio--Oxford., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: United States., Ohio, Oxford., Ohio, Oxford., Ohio, Oxford., Ohio, Oxford., Oxford (Ohio)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31179; 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-31179
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350228

Title: Negro leaders confer on demonstrations.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31355 NEGRO LEADERS CONFER ON DEMONSTRATIONS NEW YORK--Negro leaders of four major civil rights groups called for a “broad curtailment” of mass demonstrations until after the Presidential election. Their appeal was issued following a meeting in New York. Shown around the conference table are from left, Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; Jack Greenberg, NAACP attorney; Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; and A. Philip Randolph, chairman of the Negro American Labor Council. Not all of the conference participants supported the appeal. Before the meeting, Dr. King conferred with Mayor Rober F. Wagner on ways to ease racial tensions and raise the economic status of Negroes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-7E-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Greenberg, Jack, 1924-2016., NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund., Young, Whitney M., National Urban League., Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999., Congress of Racial Equality., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Lewis, John, 1940-2020., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., African American civil rights workers., Forums (Discussion and debate)--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: United States., New York (State), New York., New York (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. PC-31355; 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-31355
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:349188

Title: Martin Luther King at Berlin Wall.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-31562 MARTIN LUTHER KING AT BERLIN WALL BERLIN -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on a visit to Berlin at the invitation of Mayor Willy Brandt, gazes along the Berlin Wall. He later went through the wall at Checkpoint Charlie. East German border guards stopped the prominent integration leader, who had forgotten his passport, but after a delay allowed him to enter the Communist-dominated sector. Dr. King opened West Berlin's cultural festival, a two-week event dedicated to the interdependence of races. He also spoke in East Berlin's historic downtown St. Mary's church and took part in Protestant functions in both sections of the city. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-9C-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, September 13, 1964, September 13, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): African American clergy--Germany--Berlin., African American civil rights workers--Germany--Berlin., African Americans--Relations with Germans., Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989., Communism and Christianity--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects: Germany, Berlin., Germany, Berlin., Germany, Berlin., Berlin (Germany), United States, Europe--Germany--Schleswig-Holstein--Berlin
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. P-31562 ; 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-31562a
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:349173

Title: Dr. King wins Nobel Peace Prize.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31714 DR. KING WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ATLANTA, Ga. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who has led the non-violent movement for civil rights in America for some ten years, was named to receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The noted Baptist minister received the news from his wife by phone while at St. Joseph’s Infirmary, a Catholic hospital in Atlanta, where he had gone for a physical check-up. He said that “every penny” of the award money -- expected to be more than $54,000 -- would go for the civil rights movement. Dr. King is founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, dedicated to promoting equal rights for all Negroes. He is the second American Negro and the youngest person -- at 35 -- to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In September, Dr. King was received by Pope Paul VI in private audience at the Vatican. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-10C-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, October 1964, October 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., St. Joseph’s Infirmary (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topical Subject(s): Nobel Prize winners--Georgia--Atlanta., African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta., African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Catholic hospitals--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects: Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Georgia, Atlanta., Atlanta (Ga.), North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Fulton--Atlanta
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31714; 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-31714
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356667

Title: 21 white men arrested in slaying of rights workers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31898 21 WHITE MEN ARRESTED IN SLAYING OF RIGHTS WORKERS MERIDIAN, Miss. -- Miss Esther Carter (seated), U.S. Commissioner, arraigns 18 of the 21 white men arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with the slaying of three civil rights workers last June 21 near Philadelphia, Miss. In the group -- said to include many members of the Ku Klux Klan -- was Edgar Ray Killen, described as a fundamentalist Free Will Baptist minister and part-time farmer and sawmill worker. Also arrested were Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey (front row, in open officer’s jacket) and his deputy, Cecil Price. The arraignment was at the Naval Air Base near Meridian, Miss. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, December 4, 1964, December 4, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964--Assassination., Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964--Assassination., Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964--Assassination., Carter, Esther., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Killen, Edgar Ray., Rainey, Lawrence A., Price, Cecil.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Arraignment--Mississippi--Meridian., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Meridian., Mississippi, Philadelphia., Meridian Naval Air Station (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Lauderdale--Meridian
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31898; 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-31898
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356691

Title: At New Orleans rally.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-31772 AT NEW ORLEANS RALLY NEW ORLEANS -- When Rep. William E. Miller of New York, Republican nominee for Vice President arrived in New Orleans to address Louisiana Democrats for Goldwater, Leander Perez (right) was a member of the greeting committee. Mr. Perez, a county Democratic boss, was excommunicated in 1962 or actively opposing integration of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Mr. Millers is a Catholic and a Congressman who supported the Civil Rights Act. Political observers pointed out that Republicans had played down the support of Mr. Perez, and that the segregationist leader had been refused a meeting with Sen. Barry Goldwater. Such controls, they said, did not exist in a meeting featuring Mr. Miller planned by Democrats. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-10E-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, October 26, 1964, October 26, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Miller, William E. (William Edward), 1914-1983., Perez, Leander, 1891-1969.
Topical Subject(s): Vice-presidential candidates--United States., Political campaigns--Louisiana--New Orleans., Civil rights movements--United States., School integration--Louisiana--New Orleans., Segregation--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects: United States., Louisiana, New Orleans., United States., Louisiana, New Orleans., New Orleans (La.), North and Central America--United States--Louisiana--Orleans--New Orleans
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-31772; 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_C-31772
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356546

Title: Freedom Riders start jail terms in Florida.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31371 FREEDOM RIDERS START JAIL TERMS IN FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Eight white and Negro clergymen arrested in 1961 in a sit-in integration attempt at a Tallahassee, Fla., airport restaurant went to jail there after three years of unsuccessful appeals. They chose 60-day sentences rather than paying $500 fines after Federal Court turned down a new appeal. Their case earlier went up to the U.S. Supreme Court but that tribunal refused to hear it. Denial of the appeal generally was on technical grounds. The clergymen, from left to right, are: the Rev. John W. Collier, pastor of Israel Memorial African Methodist Episcopal church, Newark, N.J.; the Rev. A. McRaven Warner, executive secretary of the Manhattan Division of the Protestant Council of the City of New York; Rabbi Martin Freedman of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Paterson, N.J.; the Rev. Arthur L. Hardge of Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, Providence, R.I.; Rabbi Israel Dressner of Temple Sharey Shalom, Springfield, N.J.; the Rev. Robert J. Stone of New York, assistant executive director of the Commission on Religion and Race of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., and nationally known United Presbyterian theologian who was a delegate observer at the second session of the Vatican Council; and the Rev. Petty D. McKinney of St. Phillip's AME Zion church, Nyack, N.Y. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-8B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, August 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Collier, John W., Israel Memorial AME Church (Newark, N.J.), Protestant Council of the City of New York., Warner, A. McRaven., Freedman, Martin., Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun (Paterson, New Jersey), Hardge, Arthur L., Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal (Providence, R.I.), Dresner, Israel S., Stone, Robert John, 1919-, Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-2001., McKinney, Petty D., Temple Sha’arey Shalom (Springfield, Union County, N.J.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., St. Phillip's AME Zion Church (Nyack, N.Y.), Stanford University--Faculty., United States. Supreme Court.
Topical Subject(s): Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Tallahassee., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Arrest--Florida--Tallahassee.
Geographic subjects: Florida, Tallahassee., Florida, Tallahassee., Tallahassee (Fla.), North and Central America--United States--Florida--Leon--Tallahassee
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. PC-31371; 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-31371
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:349190

Title: Christmas service in new Mississippi church.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31974 CHRISTMAS SERVICE IN NEW MISSISSIPPI CHURCH RIPLEY, Miss. -- A group of northern college students, calling themselves “Carpenters for Christmas,” paused with members of the congregation of the Negro Antioch Baptist church near Ripley, Miss., for Christmas services. The church, burned to the ground Oct. 30 after a civil rights rally was held there, was reconstructed during the holiday weeks by the volunteer student group. The paster of the congregation, the Rev. John R. McDonald, preaches the Christmas sermon to the church members and students, who later put the roof on the new structure and rushed to complete the interior before returning to their campuses. Most of the volunteer carpenters were from Oberlin (Ohio) College. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, December 25, 1964, December 25, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Ripley, Miss.), McDonald, John R., Oberlin College--Students., Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students., University of Massachusetts (System)--Students., Yankton College--Students., Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Students.
Topical Subject(s): College students--Mississippi--Ripley., African American churches--Mississippi--Ripley., Civil rights movements--United States., Clergy--Mississippi--Ripley., African American clergy--Mississippi--Ripley., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Mississippi--Ripley., Christmas service--Mississippi--Ripley.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., United States., Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., Ripley (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Tippah--Ripley
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31974; 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-31974
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355918

Title: Northern students rebuild burned Mississippi church.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31963 NORTHERN STUDENTS REBUILD BURNED MISSISSIPPI CHURCH RIPLEY, Miss. -- A group of “Carpenters for Christmas” -- students from five colleges in Northern states -- lay the foundation for reconstruction of the Antioch Baptist church, a Negro sanctuary burned to the ground at Ripley, Miss., after a civil rights meeting was held there. The young builders, mostly from Oberlin (O.) College but also from Northwestern University, the University of Massachusetts, Yankton (S.D.) College and Washington University in Missouri, gave their two-week Christmas holidays to the project. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, December 21, 1964, December 21, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Ripley, Miss.), Oberlin College--Students., Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students., University of Massachusetts (System)--Students., Yankton College--Students., Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Students.
Topical Subject(s): College students--Mississippi--Ripley., African American churches--Mississippi--Ripley., Civil rights movements--United States., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--Ripley., Arson--Mississippi--Ripley., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Mississippi--Ripley., Voluntarism--Mississippi--Ripley.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., United States., Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., Mississippi, Ripley., Ripley (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Tippah--Ripley
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31963; 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-31963
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355917

Title: Alabama archbishop orders Catholic school integration.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-30947 ALABAMA ARCHBISHOP ORDERS CATHOLIC SCHOOL INTEGRATION MOBILE, Ala. -- Archbishop Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile-Birmingham, has ordered integration of all Catholic elementary and high schools in his diocese beginning in September. Announced in a pastoral letter read in diocesan churches, the order will affect parochial schools in Alabama and 11 counties of West Florida. Alabama has about 25,000 students in 80 Catholic elementary and 13 secondary schools, with about 5,000 Negroes. Archbishop Toolen urged all his faithful to “accept this decision as best for God and country.” He stressed that “no matter what personal feelings are, the common good of all must come first.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-4D-64-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Bishops., Toolen, Thomas J., 1886-1976., Catholic Church. Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham.
Topical Subject(s): Bishops--Alabama--Mobile., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., School integration--Alabama., Catholic schools--Alabama., School integration--West Florida., Catholic schools--West Florida., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Mobile., Alabama., Alabama., West Florida., West Florida., Alabama., West Florida., Mobile (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Mobile--Mobile
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. C-30947; 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_C-30947
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348351

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