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- Title
- Negro Baptist convention meets.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31560 NEGRO BAPTIST CONVENTION MEETS DETROIT -- Dr. Joseph H. Jackson of Chicago, president of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., is welcomed on arriving in Detroit for the denomination's annual meeting. With him is Dr. Mary O. Ross, president of the denominational women's auxiliary. With about 5,500,000 members, the Convention is the largest Negro church group in this country. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (HW-DET-9B-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Ward, H. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, J. H. (Joseph Harrison), 1900-1990., National Baptist Convention of the United States of America--Congresses., Ross, Mary O., National Baptist Convention of the United States of America.
- Topical Subject(s)
- African American Baptists., Congresses and conventions--Michigan--Detroit., African American clergy., African American Christians., Baptist women., African American women clergy., Women clergy.
- Geographic subjects
- Michigan, Detroit., Detroit (Mich.), North and Central America--United States--Michigan--Wayne--Detroit
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. P-31560 ; 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-31560
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:349172
- Title
- First Negro elected to head Detroit Council of Churches.
- Description
- Newspaper clipping from the Detroit Free Press.
- Creator Name(s)
- Detroit Free Press Co. (publisher), Ward, Hiley H. (author)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Roberts, Joseph Lawrence., Bethel A.M.E. Church (Detroit, Mich.), Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches., Lenox, G. Merrill (Gordon Merrill), 1902-1995.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Appointment, call, and election., African American clergy--Michigan--Detroit., African American civic leaders--Michigan--Detroit.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. P-30531; 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-30531_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:353538
- Title
- Detroit council names Negro.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-30531 DETROIT COUNCIL NAMES NEGRO DETROIT, Mich. -- Dr. Joseph Lawrence Roberts, pastor of the 2,200-member Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church in Detroit, Mich., became the first Negro to be elected president of the Detroit Council of Churches in the 45-year history of the organization. He is shown here with Dr. G. Merrill Lenox, executive director of the Council, who noted in his remarks welcoming Dr. Roberts to the post that more than 20 percent of the organization's constituency is Negro. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (HW-D-1E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Associated Press. (author)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Roberts, Joseph Lawrence., Bethel A.M.E. Church (Detroit, Mich.), Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches., Lenox, G. Merrill (Gordon Merrill), 1902-1995.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Appointment, call, and election., African American clergy--Michigan--Detroit., African American civic leaders--Michigan--Detroit.
- Geographic subjects
- Michigan, Detroit., Michigan, Detroit., Detroit (Mich.), North and Central America--United States--Michigan--Wayne--Detroit
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. P-30531; 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-30531
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:353787
- Title
- Methodist cover story.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: C-31702 METHODIST COVER STORY The new format of the Michigan Christian Advocate, introduced in its Oct. 8 issue, featured a cover photograph of Pope Paul VI’s meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Baptist minister and integration leader. Official newsmagazine for Methodists in Michigan and now in its 90th year, the Advocate is one of many influential Protestant publications whose news columns are ecumenical in the sense that all phases of Christian work, Protestant and Catholic, are covered. In this picture, the Pope and Dr. King are flanked by Msgr. Paul C. Marcinkus of Chicago and the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy of Atlanta, Ga. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (FRE-NY-10C-64-W)
- Creator Name(s)
- ANSA (Organization) (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, October 8, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Marcinkus, Paul Casimir, 1922-2006., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Chicago (Ill.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Baptists--Clergy., Magazine covers--Michigan., Interdenominational cooperation., Ecumenical movement., African American civil rights workers--United States., Civil rights workers--United States., Popes., Periodicals--Publishing--Michigan.
- Geographic subjects
- Michigan., United States., United States., Michigan., Michigan., North and Central America--United States--Michigan
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. C-31702; 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-31702
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356529