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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
- Title
- Mississippi church burnings.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31325 MISSISSIPPI CHURCH BURNINGS McCOMB, Miss. -- Sheriff R.R. Warren of McComb, Miss., examines the charred remains of Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist church -- the 11th Negro church to be destroyed by fire in the state this summer and the second burned in the McComb area within five days. The 200-member Mr. Vernon church was organized in 1886. The widespread arson was seen as racist reaction to civil rights meetings in the Negro houses of worship. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EMC-JM-7E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Chambers, Elsie May. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, circa July 21, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church (McComb, Miss.), Warren, R. R.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Sheriffs--Mississippi--Pike County., Church buildings--Mississippi--McComb., Arson--Mississippi--McComb., African American churches--Mississippi--McComb., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--McComb., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Pike County., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., McComb (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31325; 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-31325
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350295