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Title: UPCUSA Civil Rights demonstration.
Description: New York--A peaceful pre-Independence Day demonstration for racial equality was held by some 500 clergymen and members of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The placard-carrying demonstrators marched for 45 minutes in a City Hall Plaza area, then heard addresses by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, center, and Dr. W. Eugene Houston, left, a Harlem pastor who heads the presbytery's new commission on religion and race. The Mayor called for enactment of President Kennedy's civil rights proposals and pledged continuing efforts toward greater racial equality in New York City. Dr. Houston warned against the city "dragging its feet"on integration and called for acceleration of school desegregation.
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand),, 1910-1991.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century., Civil rights--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Geographic subjects: New York (State), New York, 20th century., 20th century., New York (State), New York, 20th century., New York (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29568; 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): ds3095
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:6993

Title: Clergy Lead Civil Rights Washington March.
Description: Religious, labor and civil rights leaders from New York City came to the nation's capital for a March on Washington to urge early passage of the civil rights bill without "crippling amendments." Some of the 1200 marchers are shown arriving at Union Station.
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (photographer)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), 1960-1970., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 104, Image no. 31160; 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): ds3170
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7115

Title: Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description: Hattiesburg Minister's Project volunteer clergymen meet in a local church.
Creator Name(s): Bollis, George. (photographer)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Hattiesburg Ministers Project., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights workers--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): ds3167
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7064

Title: Police arrest Dr. King for loitering.
Description: PP-22643 POLICE ARREST DR. KING FOR "LOITERING" MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is hustled off to jail by Montgomery police where he was detained for 15 minutes on a charge of loitering. Dr. King, leader of the Negro boycott against Jim Crow buses here in 1956, was arrested outside a City Hall courtroom where he had gone to attend a hearing for a Negro accused of attacking an integration leader. The 29-year-old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church here accused the police of beating and kicking him. He was released in $100 bond. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-9A-58-JS).
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1958, September 4, 1958, September 4, 1958
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 22643; 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): ds2931
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7465

Title: Delta Ministry posters.
Description: Hattiesburg, Miss.--Posters in the window of the Hattiesburg, Miss. offices of the National Council of Churches' Mississippi Delta Ministry call attention to various phases of the long-range relief, rehabilitation and education program among impoverished Negroes and whites. Hailed by many and criticized by others, largely for its encouragement of the Negro voter registration and efforts to organize laborers, the Ministry is the first such project in this country to receive support from the World Council of Churches. Headquartered in Greenville, Ministry centers also are maintained in Cleveland, Hattiesburg and McComb, Miss.
Creator Name(s): Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Date Created: 1966
Name Subject(s): Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, 20th century., Hattiesburg (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 34159; 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): ds3097
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7369

Title: Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
Description: Hattiesburg Minister's Project volunteer clergymen participate in a morning prayer service.
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 workers--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): ds3166
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7161

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: 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: They Want to March.
Description: They Want to March.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1965
Name Subject(s): Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, 20th century., Alabama, 20th century., Alabama., North and Central America--United States--Alabama
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 108, Image no. 32269; 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): ds4619
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8620

Title: Clergymen in Forefront of March.
Description: Clergymen in Forefront of March.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1965, March 10, 1965, March 10, 1965
Name Subject(s): Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, 20th century., Alabama, 20th century., Alabama., North and Central America--United States--Alabama
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 108, Image no. 32268; 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): ds4618
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8616

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: Clergymen Continue Selma Protest.
Description: Clergymen Continue Selma Protest.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1965
Name Subject(s): Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma--20th century., Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Selma, 20th century., Alabama, Selma, 20th century., Selma (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 108, Image no. 32293; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=83697
Identifier (local): ds4620
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8602

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: 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: Clergyman arrested in anti-segregation fight.
Description: Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen have been among some 300 persons arrested in a series of efforts to integrate the privately owned Gwynn Oak Amusement Park. In one of the anti-segregation demonstrations outside the park, a minister donned a red, white and blue "Uncle Sam" outfit to symbolize the fight for racial equality. He was promptly arrested on trespassing charges. The clergyman, the Rev. David Andrews, assistant chaplain at Morgan State College, is shown here being taken into custody by police.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Andrews, David., 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--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., 20th century., Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29586; 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): ds3158
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7310

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

Title: Rev. Robert Lyon Beech.
Description: [Rev. Robert Lyon Beech, director of the NCC's Hattiesburg Minister's Project.]
Creator Name(s): Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of National Ministries--Archives., Beech, Robert, 1935-2008.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Hattiesburg (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Physical Location: RT 746, Box 5, Social Corporate Ministries: Delta Ministries; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of National Ministries. Office of Communications Records, 1966-1973.
Identifier (local): ds3143
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:6995

Title: NCC Officials Face Mississippi Press.
Description: 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, [meet with reporters in the concourse of the Jackson, Mississippi airport to explain the Delta Ministry's summer student program].
Creator Name(s): Chambers, Elsie M. (photographer)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Jackson (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Jackson
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 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): ds3169
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7199

Title: Strike City proofs.
Description: [Strike City proofs, Job # 601].
Creator Name(s): Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)
Date Created: 1966, ca. 1966
Name Subject(s): Delta Ministry of Mississippi.
Topical Subject(s): African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century., Race relations--Religious aspects., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES NCC 03-0531b, Box 2; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication Records, 1925-1997.
Identifier (local): ds3154
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7382

Title: Solidarity Day March.
Description: Washington, D.C.--Churchmen were prominent among the 50,000 who gathered in the nation's Capital on June 19 to participate in the Solidarity Day march of the Poor People's Campaign. Representatives of the Synod of Virginia of the Presbyterian Church U.S. (Southern) leave the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church where a prayer service for the Campaign was held before the rally. As a denomination, the Presbyterian, U.S. Church had rejected endorsement of Solidarity Day.
Date Created: 1968, June 19, 1968, June 19, 1968
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of Virginia., New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Poor People's Campaign., African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 37321; 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): ds3094
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7239

Title: Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians," tape 1.
Description: Sermon delivered to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations on prognosis for mission work, social justice, etc., at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, 1958.
Creator Name(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Date Created: 1958, June 3, 1958, June 3, 1958
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Missions., Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Allegheny, United States., Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 89-0626c; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations, 1958.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MjAz&qrs=
Identifier (local): 89-0626c_mllk_coemar_tape1
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:4870

Title: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Description: The March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. Man farthest from the left, front row, is Jon Regier, head of the Division of Christian Life and Mission [of the National Council of Churches of Christ], a key NCC official supporting all civil rights actions of the Council.
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Regier, Jon L., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 03-0531b, Box 2; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication Records, 1925-1997.
Identifier (local): ds3156
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7066

Title: Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians," tape 2.
Description: Sermon delivered to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations on prognosis for mission work, social justice, etc., at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, 1958.
Creator Name(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Date Created: 1958, June 3, 1958, June 3, 1958
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Missions., Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Allegheny, United States., Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 89-0626c; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations, 1958.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MjAz&qrs=
Identifier (local): 89-0626c_mllk_coemar_tape2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:4871

Title: March leaders confer with president.
Description: The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union.
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), 1960-1970., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29807; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): ds3219
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:12190

Title: National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC).
Description: Web site of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC). NBPC is committed to Jesus Christ and works to ensure that the witness of Presbyterians of African decent is healthy, growing, dynamic and empowering; that racial justice is integral in the church's self-understanding and lived out in every aspect of ministry within the Presbyterian Church. Transformational church growth and leadership development also remains a high priority for the NBPC.
Creator Name(s): National Black Presbyterian Caucus. (creator)
Date Created: 2014
Name Subject(s): National Black Presbyterian Caucus.
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians--United States., African American Presbyterian churches--United States., African American civil rights workers--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States
Related Item: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Related and Ecumenical Organizations.--https://archive-it.org/collections/4735
Identifier (local): nbpc
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:130077

Title: James Forman burns court order.
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (creator)
Date Created: 1969
Name Subject(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topical Subject(s): African American civil rights workers.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 03-0531b, Box 2; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication Records, 1925-1997.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=Mzk1Mw==
Identifier (local): ds526
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:4951

Title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ.
Description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech on the church's role in the Civil Rights Movement on July 6, 1965, at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ held in Chicago, Illinois, July 1-7, 1965. This speech marked the first time King used the phrase "we shall overcome."
Date Created: 1965, July 6, 1965, July 6, 1965
Name Subject(s): United Church of Christ. General Synod., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects.--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Cook--Illinois--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109A, image no. P-32827; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32827
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:143453

Title: Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 5.
Description: Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator Name(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Date Created: 1982
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects: Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel., North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Philadelphia
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 14-1254 SPP 123; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, 1982.--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=83895
Identifier (local): 14-1254_blake_barnes_1982_side5
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116390

Title: Paul Lamar oral history, 2021.
Description: Paul Lamar, the oldest son of UPCUSA moderator Robert C. Lamar, talks about his father's work and witness, and about growing up gay inside and outside the Presbyterian Church.
Creator Name(s): Lamar, Paul. (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Date Created: 2021, February 18, 2021, February 18, 2021
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Moderator (1974 : Lamar), First Presbyterian Church (Albany, N.Y.), Lamar, Paul--Interviews., Lamar, Robert C.
Topical Subject(s): Homosexuality--Religious aspects--United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--New York--Albany--Albany, United States.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 21-0216; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Paul Lamar oral history, 2021.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MTk4MTA=&qr
Identifier (local): 21_0216_Lamar
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:175927

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