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Title: People of the Delta.
Description: Greenville, Miss.--A tenant family near Greenville. The Delta Ministry is attempting to help such families understand their rights as citizens, and to provide job training and new housing, in some cases, at "Freedom City." [People of the Delta five part series, photo 1 of 5.]
Creator Name(s): Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Date Created: 1967
Name Subject(s): Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives
Topical Subject(s): African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century., African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, 20th century., Mississippi, 20th century., Mississippi, 20th century., Greenville (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Greenville
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 36444; 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): ds3098
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7384

Title: Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965, reel 2
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions
Date Created: 1965, 1965, 1965
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma, Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Physical Location: MOTION PICTURE NEGATIVE A85; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: [Civil rights march] [motion picture].--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1677
Identifier (local): A85_selma-montgomery_reel2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:154012

Title: Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description: Picketing demonstration in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Creator Name(s): Bollis, George. (photographer)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Hattiesburg Ministers Project., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, 20th century., Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 20th century., Hattiesburg (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 31238; 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): ds3165
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7132

Title: Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965, reel 1
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions
Date Created: 1965, 1965, 1965
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma, Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Physical Location: MOTION PICTURE NEGATIVE A85; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: [Civil rights march] [motion picture].--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1677
Identifier (local): A85_selma-Montgomery_reel1
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:154011

Title: Arrest of Eugene Carson Blake, 1963.
Description: On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.
Creator Name(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Date Created: 1963, 1963, 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects
Geographic subjects: North America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Physical Location: MOTION PICTURE A8, NEG A89; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: [Arrest of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake] [motion picture].--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1639
Identifier (local): A89_ec_blake
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:146310

Title: Kenneth G. Neigh interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzM2&qrs=
Identifier (local): 85-0930_bauer_neigh_1983
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116440

Title: PCUSA Special Committee on Racism, Truth and Reconciliation
Description: The Special Committee on Racism Truth and Reconciliation was created by the 222nd General Assembly (2016) with a mandate to interrogate institutional racism within the Church. In support of the committee’s work, this collection brings together records of the Presbyterian Church’s responses to the Confession of 1967, the Black Manifesto, and other passages from the long-standing struggles of Black, Brown and indigenous power movements against white supremacy. The committee presents its full report and recommendations to the 225th General Assembly (2022).
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): islandora:scrtr
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:scrtr

Title: Indians begin California-Washington protest walk.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50828. INDIANS BEGIN CALIFORNIA-WASHINGTON PROTEST WALK. RENO: Bundled against the fierce cold and snow, a group of Indian protesters trudge through the Sierras toward the Nevada border on Feb. 13, on the first leg of their "long walk" from Sacramento to Washington to dramatize opposition to "anti-Indian" legislation in Congress. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-REN-2B-78-JH)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1978, February 13, 1978, February 13, 1978
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Indigenous peoples--Political activity--United States--20th century., Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--United States--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects: United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., Reno (Nev.), North and Central America--United States--Washoe--Nevada--Reno
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 41, image no. PC-50828; 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-50828
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:293400

Title: Dr. King arrested in voter drive.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-32117 DR. KING ARRESTED IN VOTER DRIVE SELMA, Ala. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Negroes kneel to pray as they are being taken to jail after being arrested in a voter registration drive. The noted Baptist minister and winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was among 265 persons arrested on charges of parading without a permit as they walked to the Dallas County Courthouse to protest voter registration practices. In addition, some 500 students who stayed out of school to join the demonstration were arrested on truancy charges, while 37 adults were seized by police for contempt of court. Most of those apprehended were released without bail pending arraignment. Dr. King, however, remained in jail than post the $200 bond required for non-residents. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-2A-65-NAB)
Date Created: 1965, February 1, 1965, February 1, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1928-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights deomnstrations--Alabama--Selma., Arrest--Alabama--Selma., African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Selma., Suffrage--Alabama--Selma.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Selma., Alabama, Selma., Alabama, Selma., Alabama, Selma., Selma (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Dallas--Selma
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 107, image no. PC-32117; 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-32117
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:343596

Title: New version.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30829 NEW VERSION “Whistler’s Mother,” Civil Rights version, as drawn by Hy Rosen, staff cartoonish of the Albany Times-Union. Cartoon shows Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, of Cambridge, Mass., who was arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., for her efforts to integrate public accommodations there. Mrs. Peabody is the wife of a retired Protestant Episcopal bishop and the mother of an Episcopal priest and Gov. Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ATU-NY-4B-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Rosen, Hy. (artist)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., lcsh, Peabody, Mary.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Jacksonville., Editorial cartoons--New York (State)--Albany., Political satire.
Geographic subjects: United States., Florida, Jacksonville., New York (State), Albany., Jacksonville (Fla.), Albany (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. PC-30829; 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-30829
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348342

Title: White segregationist attacks Dr. King.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-32069 WHITE SEGREGATIONIST ATTACKS DR. KING SELMA, Ala. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is confronted by a white segregationist outside the Dallas County Court House in Selma, Ala. The man later punched and kicked the noted Negro integration leader as he registered at a previously segregated hotel. The attacker was James Robinson, 26, of Birmingham, Ala., a member of the segregationist National States Rights Party. Police quickly seized Mr. Robinson and charged him with assault and disturbing the peace. Dr. King said later he was not hurt by the attack, suffering only a headache. The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leading advocate of the non-violent movement against discrimination was in Selma to assist a voter registration drive. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-1C-65-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, January 18, 1965, January 18, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Robinson, Jimmy George.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--Alabama--Selma., Civil rights movements--United States., Segregation--Alabama--Selma.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Selma., United States., Alabama, Selma., Selma (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Dallas--Selma
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32069; 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-32069
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355931

Title: March on jail.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #50502 MARCH ON JAIL…BIRMINGHAM, Ala…Barred window of waiting paddy wagon frames demonstrators -- some singing, some praying -- as an estimated 2,000 marched on the Birmingham jail May 5 in a segregation protest. (1963).
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, May 5, 1963, May 5, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham., Police vehicles--Alabama--Birmingham., Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Birmingham., Alabama, Birmingham., Alabama, Birmingham., United States, Birmingham (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Jefferson--Birmingham
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 50502; 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_50502
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358337

Title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. struck by a rock.
Description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is struck by a rock during a march in Chicago on August 5, 1966.
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (photographer)
Date Created: 1966, August 5, 1966, August 5, 1966
Name Subject(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Illinois, Chicago, 20th century., Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 34625; 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): ds3344
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7010

Title: Gayraud Wilmore interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 1.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer), Wilmore, Gayraud S., 1921- (interviewee)
Date Created: 1983
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzM2&qrs=
Identifier (local): 85-0930_bauer_wilmore_1983_side1
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116429

Title: New directions in race relations, 1960s.
Description: Gayraud Wilmore and Metz Rollins interviewed by Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards for an ADL radio forum, 1960s.
Creator Name(s): Wilmore, Gayraud S. (interviewee), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (interviewee), Bernards, Solomon S., 1914-2004. (interviewer)
Date Created: 1960, ca. 1960s
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: TAPE 760; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: New directions in race relations [sound recording] / Dr. Gayraud Wilmore, Rev. Metz Rollins.--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=479
Identifier (local): tape760
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:133242

Title: Sleep-in demonstrators under Liberty Bell.
Description: Sleep-in demonstrators under Liberty Bell.
Creator Name(s): Riley, G. (creator)
Date Created: 1965
Name Subject(s): Liberty Bell Center (Philadelphia, Pa.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century., Liberty Bell.
Geographic subjects: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 20th century., Philadelphia (Pa.), North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 32340; 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): ds3343
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7274

Title: Gayraud Wilmore interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 2.
Description: Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator Name(s): Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer), Wilmore, Gayraud S., 1921- (interviewee)
Date Created: 1983
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: 85-0930; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: R. W. Bauer papers, 1977-1985.
Identifier (local): 85-0930_bauer_wilmore_1983_side2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116423

Title: Melva Costen unedited Living History interview, part 1.
Description: Melva Costen, wife of former general assembly moderator James Costen, discusses her musical life inside and outside the Presbyterian church, and her family's involvement in the Civil Rights movement.
Creator Name(s): Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933- (interviewee)
Date Created: 2013
Name Subject(s): Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-
Topical Subject(s): African American civil rights workers., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): 20131007205731
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:124561

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: Lincoln spirit prevades Washington march.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29813 LINCOLN SPIRIT PREVADES [sic] WASHINGTON MARCH WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Abraham Lincoln was present in spirit as more than 200,000 Americans gathered before the memorial to him in the nation’s capital in a moving mass effort for civil rights. Several speakers cited the 100-year lag in providing all citizens with equal rights and opportunities since Lincoln singed the Emancipation Proclamation. 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., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Statues.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29813; 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-29813
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358124

Title: "Resurrection City."
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-37161 ‘RESURRECTION CITY’ WASHINGTON, D.C. -- “Resurrection City” begins to take shape in Washington, D.C. It will be “home” for some 3,000 participants in the Poor People’s Campaign during their stay in the national capital. The site for the camp being set up by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is situated alongside the Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-5C-68-W)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1968, May 1968, May 1968
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Poor People's Campaign., Tents--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--United States., Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States., United States, Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-37161; 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-37161
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358339

Title: Solidarity Day.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-37320 SOLIDARITY DAY WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Supporters of the Poor People’s Campaign line both sides of the Reflecting Pool and they fill the foreground at the Lincoln Memorial on Solidarity Day. Demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument, in background, and moved in an orderly manner to the Memorial. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-6D-68-W)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1968, June 19, 1968, June 19, 1968
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Poor People's Campaign., Picketing--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--United States., Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States., United States, Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-37320; 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-37320
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358348

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: Principals in Alabama bus boycott.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #PBLEM-18874 PRINCIPALS IN ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott here protesting segregation in city buses. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19 for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December after a Negro seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Negro riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-RAM-3C-56-NAB-PBLEM)
Creator Name(s): Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Date Created: 1956, March 1956, March 1956
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., Bennett, L. Roy., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hubbard, H.H., Nixon, Edgar Daniel.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., United States, Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PBLEM-18874; 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_PBLEM-18874
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358342

Title: Chicago march leaders.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-34662 CHICAGO MARCH LEADERS CHICAGO -- Leaders of the civil rights marches protesting housing discrimination in Chicago discuss future strategy with their followers. Albert Raby, heading the effort, announces that plans to march in suburban Cicero have been postponed. With him are other Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials -- the Rev. James Bevel (left) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-8C-66-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1966, August 1966, August 1966
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Raby, Al, 1933-1988., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects: United States., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., United States, Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-34662; 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-34662
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358347

Title: Ministers, religion professors jailed as Freedom Riders.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PF-26262 MINISTERS, RELIGION PROFESSORS JAILED AS FREEDOM RIDERS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- These “Freedom Riders” were smiling as they arrived here by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they sought service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr. David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; George B. Smith (head partially visible), Negro law student at Yale University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group; the Rev. Gaylor [Gaylord] Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, Negro theological students at Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Others arrested at the “white only” counter were four Negro integration leaders, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist church here; the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth of Birmingham; the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, an executive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Bernard S. Lee, one of nine students expelled from Alabama State College last year for trying to stage a sit-in demonstration. Another Negro leader, the Rev. Solomon S. Seay, executive secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was short in the wrist the same day, reportedly by a white man in a passing car. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-5D-61-DP)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1961, May 1961, May 1961
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Maguire, John David., Swift, David Everett, 1914-, Smith, George Bundy., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Noyce, Gaylord B., Carter, Clyde Larocque., Jones, Charles, 1937-2019.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., United States, Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PF-26262; 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_PF-26262
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358357

Title: Eugene Carson Blake arrested.
Description: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.
Creator Name(s): Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29572; 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): ds3157
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7398

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