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Title: Predicts civil rights passage.
Description: Alternate caption by Wide World Photos.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
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.
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_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348662

Title: Rabbi speaks for civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30958 RABBI SPEAKS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America, urges immediate passage of pending civil rights legislation at a mass interreligious convocation at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. More than 6,000 Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews attended the convocation. Other main speakers, from left to right immediately behind the rostrum, included Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington and Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the National Council of Churches’ race commission. At far right is Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, NCC race commission chairman and chief administrative officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5A-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Thompson, Kenneth. (photographer), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (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., Christian Methodist Episcopal Church., Synagogue Council of America., O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.), Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
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--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. PC-30958; 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-30958
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348437

Title: Religious support for civil rights bill.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30893 RELIGIOUS SUPPORT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BILL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A demand that the U.S. Senate pass the “strongest possible” civil rights bill was made by leading Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish spokesmen as they announced an interreligious convocation in support of the measure would be held in the nation’s capital on April 28. A joint statement calling the convocation and stating that religious groups cannot watch the debate as “uninvolved spectators” was issued by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (speaking), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and head of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race; Father John F. Cronin, S.S. (left), assistant director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-4D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Thompson, Kenneth. (photographer), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, April 1964, April 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Synagogue Council of America., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., National Catholic Welfare Conference., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Ecumenical movement--Washington (D.C.), Speeches, addresses, etc., Religion and social problems--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., 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-30893; 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-30893
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348433

Title: Enthusiastic interreligious crowd urges civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30959 ENTHUSIASTIC INTERRELIGIOUS CROWD URGES CIVIL RIGHTS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than 6,000 Protestants, Catholics and Jews enthusiastically applaud as Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. chief administrator and chairman of the National Council of Churches’ race commission, demands that civil rights legislation “must and will be enacted -- and the time is now.” All 535 Senators and Representatives were invited to the interreligious convocation at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and several attended. At left in the front row are the two New York Republican Senators, Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating, and sixth from left is Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.), floor manager of the civil rights bill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5A-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Thompson, Kenneth. (photographer), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (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., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Georgetown University., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
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--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. PC-30959; 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-30959
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348438

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: President Johnson, NCC leaders discuss civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-30357 PRESIDENT JOHNSON, NCC LEADERS DISCUSS CIVIL RIGHTS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A strong stand in favor of civil rights legislation by the National Council of Churches’ General Assembly at Philadelphia was followed by an invitation from President Lyndon B. Johnson for NCC leaders to meet with him and discuss measures to expedite passage of the pending bill. With the President are J. Irwin Miller, Columbus, Ind., Disciples of Christ layman who retired as NCC president (seated, left), and his successor, Senior Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (seated, center), and, standing left to right: Christian Methodist Episcopal Bishop B. Julian Smith of Chicago, Dr. Robert W. Spike of New York, and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dr. Spike is executive director and Bishop Smith and Dr. Blake are vice chairmen of the NCC’s Commission on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NC-12B-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, December 9, 1963, December 9, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., White House (Washington, D.C.), Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Miller, J. Irwin (Joseph Irwin), 1909-2004., Mueller, Reuben Herbert., Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race.
Topical Subject(s): Presidents--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. P-30357; 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-30357
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:352934

Title: Catholic council honors Protestant civil rights leader.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30501 CATHOLIC COUNCIL HONORS PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER CHICAGO -- An awards dinner of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, where Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., was honored for civil rights leadership, was described as "one of the most important examples of the ecumenical movement on the local level." Auxiliary Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (right) presents the first John F. Kennedy Award to Dr. Blake. Other participants in the dinner included the Rev. Ulysses B. Blakeley, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chicago, who said grace, and Rabbi Irving J. Rosenbaum of the Chicago Loop Synagogue, who delivered the benediction. Dr. Blake, a leader of the National Council of Churches' anti-discrimination effort and a personal participant in integration demonstrations, called on American religious groups to recognize their responsibility to lead the first fight against racial injustice. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-C-ID-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (author)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Hillinger, Raymond P., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Chicago (Ill.), Catholic Inter-Racial Council (Chicago, Ill.)--Congresses., Catholic Church--Relations--Presbyterian Church., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Conrad Hilton Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights workers--United States., Award presentations--Illinois--Chicago., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects: United States., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30501; 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-30501
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353836

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: 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: Letter from Rev. Thomas Kilgore to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, July 30, 1963.
Description: Letter written by Rev. Thomas Kilgore of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the UPCUSA. In the letter, Rev. Kilgore urgently asks for financial support for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Creator Name(s): Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998. (author), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (addressee)
Date Created: 1963, July 30, 1963, July 30, 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kilgore, Thomas, 1913-1998., 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--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), 1960-1970., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 95, Box 15, Folder 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Eugene Carson Blake Records, 1935-1966.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-95
Identifier (local): rg95_b15_f6_blake_kilgore
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:345245

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: Now advances someday.
Description: [Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene Carson Blake, and others bow their heads in prayer during the March on Washington. From Presbyterian Life, Oct 1, 1963, p. 9].
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., 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: MI P97; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Life.
Identifier (local): ds3213
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7327

Title: Religious leaders greet woman in famed 'bus' case.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29797 RELIGIOUS LEADERS GREET WOMAN IN FAMED ‘BUS’ CASE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 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 Joachin 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 aroused the nation, helped weld Negroes and white in campaigns that culminated in the March on Washington. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-WN-8E-63-W)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
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.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., American Jewish Congress., Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., National Catholic Welfare Conference. Social Action Department., Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Rabbis--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-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): RNS-RG1_PC-29797
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7253

Title: United Presbyterian leaders meet Pope.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31431 UNITED PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS MEET POPE (NOTE TO EDITORS: We are rushing this radiophoto to you for those of you who need it for your deadlines. A picture of better quality will be sent to you tomorrow.) CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope Paul VI held his first private audience with top officials of a U.S. Protestant denomination at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Meeting for 20 minutes with the pontiff were Dr. Edler G. Hawkins of New York, first Negro moderator of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (center) and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief administrator of the denomination. Pope Paul expressed deep concern over America's civil rights struggle and called for continuation of the ecumenical dialogue. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-8D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, August 17, 1964, August 17, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Hawkins, Edler G., 1908-1977., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Catholic Church--Relations--Presbyterian Church., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Popes., Meetings--Italy--Castel Gandolfo., African American Presbyterians--Italy--Castel Gandolfo., Christian leadership--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: Italy, Castel Gandolfo., Italy, Castel Gandolfo., United States., Castel Gandolfo (Italy), Europe--Italy--Lazio--Roma--Castel Gandolfo
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. PC-31431; 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-31431
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:349196

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: 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: Pope Paul, United Presbyterian leaders meet.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31432 POPE PAUL, UNITED PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS MEET CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Leaders of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. became the first top officials of a U.S. Protestant denomination to have a private audience with Pope Paul VI. Meeting with the Roman Catholic pontiff for 20 minutes at the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo were, from left to right: Dr. Edler G. Hawkins of New York, first Negro moderator of the 3.3 million member denomination; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief administrative officer, and Richard L. Davies of Washington, D.C., lay chairman of the denomination's Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-NY-8D-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, August 17, 1964, August 17, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Hawkins, Edler G., 1908-1977., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Davies, Richard L., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., Catholic Church--Relations--Presbyterian Church., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Popes., Meetings--Italy--Castel Gandolfo., African American Presbyterians--Italy--Castel Gandolfo., Christian leadership--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: Italy, Castel Gandolfo., Italy, Castel Gandolfo., United States., Castel Gandolfo (Italy), Europe--Italy--Lazio--Roma--Castel Gandolfo
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. PC-31432 ; 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-31432
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:349197

Title: Eugene Carson Blake 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): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: Hartford (Conn.), North and Central America--United States--Connecticut--Hartford
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_blake_1983
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116447

Title: Eugene Carson Blake at demonstration.
Description: Blake, in straw hat, is preceded by William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, and followed by Roman Catholic Father Joseph Connolly, as group moves in on Gwynn Oak Park to challenge segregation. [From Presbyterian Life, August 1, 1963, p. 25.]
Date Created: 1963, August 1, 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Woodlawn--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Gwynn Oak Park (Woodlawn, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Woodlawn
Physical Location: MI P97; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Life.
Identifier (local): ds3099
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7105

Title: God bless - whom? :
Description: Writer/narrator, Richard Goode ; director, Nancy Carter. Participants: Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, anon. Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan, anon. Northern and Southern citizens. Presents the moral issues in the civil rights struggle with specific suggestions about what individuals can do.
Creator Name(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Goode, Richard. (narrator), Carter, Nancy. (director)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Galamison, , Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: Alabama., North and Central America--United States--Alabama
Physical Location: TAPE 761; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: God bless - whom? [sound recording] : radio documentary on religion and race.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=146
Identifier (local): tape761_GodBlessWhom
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116487

Title: Eugene Carson Blake interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 3.
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): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects: Hartford (Conn.), North and Central America--United States--Connecticut--Hartford
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_blake_1983_side3
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116420

Title: Eugene Carson Blake 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): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects: Hartford (Conn.), North and Central America--United States--Connecticut--Hartford
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_blake_1983_side1
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116415

Title: Eugene Carson Blake 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): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Date Created: 1983
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects: Hartford (Conn.), North and Central America--United States--Connecticut--Hartford
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_blake_1983_side2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116417

Title: Rev. Bruce William Klunder memorial address by Eugene Carson Blake.
Description: Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.
Creator Name(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)
Date Created: 1964, April 1964, April 1964
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.
Geographic subjects: Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Cleveland (Ohio), North and Central America--United States--Ohio--Cuyahoga--Cleveland
Physical Location: RG 3, Box 17, Folder 20; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Eugene Carson Blake Papers, 1940-1966.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-3
Identifier (local): rg3_b17_f20_klunder_blake_address
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:344177

Title: March leaders confer with president.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29807 MARCH LEADERS CONFER WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Strong bi-partisan support will be necessary to push civil rights legislation through Congress, President Kennedy told leaders of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drw over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, for left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Mathew 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. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
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.), Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Whitney M., Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Ahmann, Mathew H., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Presidents--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-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): RNS-RG1_PC-29807
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7220

Title: National anthem opens Washington march program.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29811 NATIONAL ANTHEM OPENS WASHINGTON MARCH PROGRAM WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A young Negro usher, holding cap at right, stands solemnly with religious, civil rights and labor leaders on the platform in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the national anthem at the opening of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom program. Five of the 10 chairmen of the March also on the platform were, from left to right: Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 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; and, second from right, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. 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
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Young, Whitney M., Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., National Urban League., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America., American Jewish Congress., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Labor movement--United States--20th century., National songs--United States., Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), United States, 20th century., United States., Washington (D.C.), 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. P-29811; 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-29811
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358097

Title: Leaders of march visit White House.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29806 LEADERS OF MARCH VISIT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representatives of religious, civic, labor and civil rights groups chat on the White House lawn before a meeting with President Kennedy which followed the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. From left are: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, who marched in place of CORE president, James Farmer, who remained in Louisiana where he had been jailed in a rights protest; Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 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; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; A. Philip Randolph, director of the March on Washington and founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; and John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
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.), White House (Washington, D.C.), Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Congress of Racial Equality., Ahmann, Mathew H., National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., American Jewish Congress., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil right workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), 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-29806; 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-29806
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358123

Title: World Council leaders condemns racists.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29818 WORLD COUNCIL LEADERS CONDEMNS RACISTS ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Christians who support segregation “by action or inaction” betray Jesus Christ, leaders of the World Council of Churches declared at Rochester, N.Y. The WCC’s powerful, policy-making Central Committee issued what was regarded as its strongest condemnation of discrimination. Examining the statement here are, from left to right: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Sir Francis Ibiam of Nigeria, one of the six presidents of the WCC, and Methodist Bishop James K. Matthews of Boston. Dr. Blake and Bishop Matthews took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Presbyterian leader served as one of the 10 chairmen of the demonstration, representing the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-ROCH-9A-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): World Council of Churches. (publisher), Taylor, John. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, circa August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Colgate Rochester Divinity School., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Ibiam, Akanu., Matthews, James K., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Bishops--New York (State)--Rochester., Clergy--New York (State)--Rochester., Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--Rochester., Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: New York (State), Rochester., New York (State), Rochester., New York (State), Rochester., United States., Rochester (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--Monroe--Rochester
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29818; 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-29818
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358098

Title: Lead interreligious rally.
Description: Alternate caption.
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.)
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_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348493

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