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- Title
- Banner proclaims religious support for march.
- Description
- Religious participation in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom exceeded all expectations. In addition to many banners and signs designating specific religious groups, many churchmen and women marched as Protestants, Catholics and Jews, united in their support of full equality for all American citizens. More than half the signs in the March were those of churches, synagogues and related agencies.
- Creator Name(s)
- Muse, Seth. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1963
- 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, Image no. 29804; 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)
- ds3159
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:7390
- Title
- Religious leaders greet woman in famed bus case.
- Description
- Three religious leaders participating in the March on Washington greet a Negro woman whose arrest made headlines in 1955. Mrs. Rosa Parks is shown with, left to right, Father John F. Cronin of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; and Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. In 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested when she refused to obey a bus driver's order to give her seat to a white person. Her case was one of several that arroused the nation, helped weld Negroes and whites in campaigns that culminated in the March on Washington.
- Creator Name(s)
- Muse, Seth. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005., 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.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29797; 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)
- ds3220
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:7253