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- Title
- Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, January-July 1964, January-July 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Hattiesburg., United States., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Hattiesburg (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-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)
- RNS-RG1_P-31238
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350241
- Title
- Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, January-July 1964, January-July 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ)--Clergy., Mississippi Freedom Project.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Hattiesburg., United States., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Hattiesburg (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-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)
- RNS-RG1_P-31238c
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350244
- Title
- Protestant civil rights procession.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31056 PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS PROCESSION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some 270 Protestant ministers and laymen moved in silent, solemn procession from the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to the Capitol, where they urged immediate passage of a strong civil rights bill. Enroute, the marchers paused briefly on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building for prayers commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 1954 decision outlawing public school segregation. At right, Dr. Robert W. Spike, director of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, which sponsored the demonstration, follows Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.) down the Capitol steps. Sen. Humphrey and Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R.-N.Y.) addressed the gathering, hailing religious support of the bill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, May 1964, May 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.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Protestant churches--Clergy., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31056; 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-31056
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350194
- Title
- Rabbi beaten in Mississippi voter drive.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31274 RABBI BEATEN IN MISSISSIPPI VOTER DRIVE HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Segregationists wielding metal bars attacked Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, Ohio, and two other white civil rights workers for their voter registration work with Negroes at Hattiesburg, Miss. He is shown leaving a hospital there after being treated for severe head and body injuries. The rabbi is accompanied (left) by the Rev. Charles W. Rawlings, director of the Cleveland Church Federation’s Office of Religion and Race. The Hattiesburg voter registration campaign, supervised by the National Council of Churches’ race commission, has been maintained since last winter on an interreligious basis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-7C-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, July 11, 1964, July 11, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996., Rawlings, Charles W., Mississippi Freedom Project.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Rabbis--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Victims of violent crimes--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Hattiesburg (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31274; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-31274
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350284
- Title
- Philadelphia religious leaders act on race.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31124 PHILADELPHIA RELIGIOUS LEADERS ACT ON RACE PHILADELPHIA- Protestant and Roman Catholic bishops make public the first interreligious statement on racial justice and religious harmony ever issued in Philadelphia. Shown left to right are Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson of Philadelphia, head of the World Methodist Council; Catholic Archbishop John J. Krol of Philadelphia; and Protestant Episcopal Bishop Robert L. DeWitt of Pennsylvania. The joint statement was also signed by local Baptist, Lutheran, Quaker, United Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Jewish leaders. For the first time in this city, many of them attended a Mass offered for racial and religious harmony by Archbishop Krol in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GR-PHIL-6B-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Riley, George. (photographer), Evening bulletin (Philadelphia, Pa.) (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, circa June 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Corson, Fred P. (Fred Pierce), 1896-, World Methodist Council., Król, John J. (John Joseph), 1910-1996., Catholic Church--Bishops., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Episcopal Church--Bishops., DeWitt, Robert Lionne.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Bishops--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Interdenominational cooperation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Geographic subjects
- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., United States., Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31124; 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-31124
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350271
- Title
- Religious groups support civil rights.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31068 RELIGIOUS GROUPS SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS PHILADELPHIA-Representatives of church groups demonstrate for racial justice at an “interreligious witness for civil rights” in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall Square. The meeting was attended by several hundred persons from about 25 cooperating religious groups. Aim of the demonstration was an early passage of the civil rights bill in Congress. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-5E-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, May 24, 1964, May 24, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Unitarian churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Interdenominational cooperation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Geographic subjects
- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., United States., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31068; 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-31068
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350266
- Title
- Galloway United Methodist Church, segregated.
- Creator Name(s)
- Religious News Service. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, March 29, 1964, March 29, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Galloway Memorial Methodist Church (Jackson, Miss.), Golden, Charles Franklin., Mathews, James K. (James Kenneth), 1913-
- Topical Subject(s)
- Bishops--Mississippi--Jackson., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Jackson., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation--Mississippi--Jackson., Civil rights movements--United States., Police--Mississippi--Jackson.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., United States., Mississippi, Jackson., Jackson (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. 31186; 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_31186
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350109
- Title
- Senators welcome Protestant civil rights marchers.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31057 SENATORS WELCOME PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senators Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), right, and Kenneth B. Keating (R.-N.Y.), welcome some 270 Protestant ministers and laymen who marched to the Capitol to urge passage of the civil rights bill. The Minnesota legislator, floor manager for the bill, praised the march participants as “good citizens who come in the great American tradition of petition.” After brief ceremonies on the Capitol steps, the churchmen and women called on individual Senators. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, May 1964, May 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., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Protestant churches--Clergy., Legislators--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- Washington (D.C.), United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31057; 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-31057
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350196
- Title
- Negroes pray in racial demonstration.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31110 NEGROES PRAY IN RACIAL DEMONSTRATION ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.-A group of Negroes pauses to pray in a park while marching on downtown St. Augustine to demonstrate against racial discrimination. Many Negroes, as well as some whites, have been staging demonstrations in this southern city which was been the scene of racial strife in recent months. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6A-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 1964, June 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine., Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine., Prayer--Florida--Saint Augustine.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Florida, Saint Augustine., Florida, Saint Augustine., Florida, Saint Augustine., Saint Augustine (Fla.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31110; 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-31110
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350267
- Title
- Galloway United Methodist Church, segregated.
- Creator Name(s)
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (publisher), Thompson, Kenneth. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, March 29, 1964, March 29, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Galloway Memorial Methodist Church (Jackson, Miss.), Golden, Charles Franklin., Mathews, James K. (James Kenneth), 1913-
- Topical Subject(s)
- Bishops--Mississippi--Jackson., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Jackson., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation--Mississippi--Jackson., Civil rights movements--United States., Police--Mississippi--Jackson.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., Mississippi, Jackson., United States., Mississippi, Jackson., Jackson (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. TV-31129; 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_TV-31129
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350300
- Title
- Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, January-July 1964, January-July 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Singing--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Hattiesburg., United States., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Hattiesburg (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-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)
- RNS-RG1_P-31238b
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350243
- Title
- Hattiesburg race effort continuing.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31238 HATTIESBURG RACE EFFORT CONTINUING HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Scenes of last January remained vivid in July, as the nation’s most comprehensive civil rights bill became law. Since minister, rabbis and Negroes of the community staged prolonged picketing in Hattiesburg, Miss., to protest voter registration practices an effort has been continued there on an interreligious, interracial basis to increase the number of registered Negro voters. The pattern of civil rights demonstrations across the nation is mirrored in the scenes here: a preparatory briefing in a local church (top left), prayer (top right) and petitioning God’s guidance through song, with hand’s linked to symbolize the united effort (bottom left) and peaceful picketing (bottom right). Local authorities, who initially permitted the demonstration within a specified area, later arrested nine United Presbyterian ministers and a Disciples of Christ clergyman on charges of disorderly conduct for having refused to follow police directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GB-NY-7A-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Ballis, George Elfie. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, January-July 1964, January-July 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Prayer--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Hattiesburg., United States., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Mississippi, Hattiesburg., Hattiesburg (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-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)
- RNS-RG1_P-31238a
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350242
- Title
- NCC trains students for Mississippi program.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31179 NCC TRAINS STUDENTS FOR MISSISSIPPI PROGRAM OXFORD, Ohio -- Problems expected to be encountered by college students going to Mississippi this summer to conduct voter registration and education sessions for Negroes are outlined at an orientation session at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio. The week-long training period was held by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, in cooperation with civil rights groups which are sponsoring the “freedom schools.” Here, the Rev. Bruce Hanson, NCC official heading the orientation program, is flanked by Robert Moses (left), of New York, director of the Mississippi program for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and James Forman of Atlanta, executive secretary of the SNCC. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-6C-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 18, 1964, June 18, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Western College for Women--Students., Mississippi Freedom Project., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Hanson, Donald Bruce., Moses, Robert Parris., Forman, James, 1928-2005., United Church of Christ--Clergy.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Ohio--Oxford., College students--Ohio--Oxford., Women college students--Ohio--Oxford., Clergy--Ohio--Oxford., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Ohio, Oxford., Ohio, Oxford., Ohio, Oxford., Ohio, Oxford., Oxford (Ohio)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31179; 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-31179
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350228
- Title
- Protestant civil rights procession.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31056 PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS PROCESSION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some 270 Protestant ministers and laymen moved in silent, solemn procession from the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to the Capitol, where they urged immediate passage of a strong civil rights bill. Enroute, the marchers paused briefly on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building for prayers commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 1954 decision outlawing public school segregation. At right, Dr. Robert W. Spike, director of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, which sponsored the demonstration, follows Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.) down the Capitol steps. Sen. Humphrey and Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R.-N.Y.) addressed the gathering, hailing religious support of the bill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, May 1964, May 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., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Protestant churches--Clergy., Legislators--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- Washington (D.C.), United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31056; 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-31056a
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350195
- 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
- Negroes attend St. Augustine church.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31190 NEGROES ATTEND ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Five Negroes leave Trinity Episcopal church in racial-strife torn St. Augustine, Fla., after successfully integrating services. Though vestrymen at the church opposed allowing the Negroes to enter, clergymen insisted that they be admitted. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-SA-6D-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 21, 1964, June 21, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Trinity Episcopal Church (Saint Augustine, Fla.), Episcopal Church--Clergy.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine., Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Florida, Saint Augustine., Saint Augustine (Fla.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31190; 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-31190
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350230
- Title
- Rights bill thanksgiving service.
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1915-2008., Bunton, Henry Clay, 1903-, Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., National Catholic Welfare Conference., Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Interdenominational cooperation--Washington (D.C.), Ecumenical movement--Washington (D.C.), Sermons--Washington (D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31197; 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-31197_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:349843
- Title
- Rights bill thanksgiving service.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31197 RIGHTS BILL THANKSGIVING SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some 200 Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews joined in an interreligious thanksgiving service to mark the Senate passage of the civil rights bill and to pledge continued efforts on behalf of racial justice. It was held on the lawn of the Methodist Building in Washington, about a block from the Capitol. Reading the Scripture is Bishop Henry C. Bunton of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Other leaders in the service included Father John F. Cronin, assistant director, National Catholic Welfare Conference’s Social Action Department (center of group at wall). Seated next to him (white robe) is Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr., of Washington Cathedral (Episcopal). In front of them (bending) is Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director, National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. The service was sponsored by the NCC, the NCWC, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and the Theological Students Vigil for Civil Rights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (N-NY-6D-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, circa June 10, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1915-2008., Bunton, Henry Clay, 1903-, Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., National Catholic Welfare Conference., Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Interdenominational cooperation--Washington (D.C.), Ecumenical movement--Washington (D.C.), Sermons--Washington (D.C.)
- Geographic subjects
- Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31197; 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-31197
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350278
- Title
- Clergy lead civil rights Washington march.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31160 CLERGY LEAD CIVIL RIGHTS WASHINGTON MARCH WASHINGTON, D. C. -- Religious, labor and civil rights leaders from New York City came to the nation’s capital [capitol] for a March on Washington to urge early passage of the civil rights bill without “crippling amendments.” Some of the 1,200 marchers are shown arriving at Union Station. They went to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressmen and other government officials, held a prayer vigil at the Lincoln Memorial and a rally at the Washington Monument. Co-chairmen of the march were Father Edward T. Dugan of the Resurrection Catholic church, the Rev. Eugene Houston of Rendall Memorial Presbyterian church, and Rabbi Alfred L. Friedman of Union Temple of Brooklyn. The three clergymen serve as co-chairmen of the Committee on Race and Religion of New York’s Committee of Religious Leaders. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-6C-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 15, 1964, June 15, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Union Station (Washington, D.C.), Committee of Religious Leaders of the City of New York., Dugan, Edward T., Catholic Church--Clergy., Houston, W. Eugene., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Friedman, Alfred L., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Rabbis--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Interdenominational cooperation--Washington (D.C.), Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York.
- Geographic subjects
- New York (State), New York., Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), New York (State), New York., Washington (D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-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)
- RNS-RG1_PC-31160
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350275
- Title
- Negro leaders confer with Attorney General.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31203 NEGRO LEADERS CONFER WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Negro leaders met with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (center) to discuss racial strife in Mississippi and the reported disappearance of three civil rights workers in that state. They are Bishop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, board chairman of the NAACP (right); and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP. Hundred of volunteer students are expected to work in voter registration projects or teach Negroes in “freedom schools” this summer in Mississippi. Many of them are being trained at one-week orientation courses through efforts of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6D-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 24, 1964, June 24, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968., Spottswood, Stephen G. (Stephen Gill), 1897-1974., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops., Mississippi Freedom Project.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--United States., Meetings--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Attorneys general--United States., African American bishops--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Mississippi
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31203; 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-31203
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350279
- 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
- Papal audience.
- Description
- Newspaper clipping from New York Journal-American featuring cropped version of image.
- Creator Name(s)
- New York Journal-American (New York, N.Y.) (author)
- Date Created
- 1964, August 18, 1964, August 18, 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.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. PC-31431; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-31431_03
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:349328
- 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
- Bishop Stephen Spottswood.
- Description
- Detail of PC-31203.
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 24, 1964, June 24, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Spottswood, Stephen G. (Stephen Gill), 1897-1974., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops.
- Topical Subject(s)
- African American bishops--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31203; 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-31203a
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350280
- Title
- Photo highlights of 1963.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-30361 PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS OF 1963 For Release: Thursday, Dec. 26, or later LEFT PANEL Top Left: President Kennedy’s body is carried to funeral services and burial in Arlington Cemetery. In his short term, the young Chief Executive stemmed fears of a Roman Catholic in the White House and was widely hailed for moving the nation toward solution of its racial problem and, by personal example, for furthering under-standing among all religions. His assassination called attention to what numerous religious leaders described as a dangerous degree of hate, arrogance and prejudice and nationwide complacency. Top Right: Death of Pope John XXIII. Large crowds kept a death watch in front of St. Peter’s Basilica at Vatican City. For his concern for all men, for his “opening the window” to renewal of the Roman Catholic Church, the pontiff was eulogized by leaders of virtually all religions. Middle Left: Devotional prayer and Bible reading in public schools was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Most of the nation complied, though there was scattered objection in eastern states and outright refusal to stop school devotions in some Southern areas. Middle Right: A first National Conference on Religion and Race solidified the Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Jewish thrust against discrimination and segregation. Leaders at the historic January meeting in Chicago included (from left) Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwaukee, Wis., chairman of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; J. Irwin Miller, then president of the National Council of Churches; Albert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago; Dr. Julius Mark, then president of the Synagogue Council of America; Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Bottom Left: A 16-member delegation from Russian Orthodox, Baptist, Lutheran, Armenian and Georgian Orthodox Churches visited the U.S. in March under auspices of the National Council of Churches. Bottom Right: Religion’s deepening role in the fight for racial justice was exemplified in the dramatic 210,000-strong “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” on Aug. 28. Participation by Protestants, Orthodox, Catholics and Jews exceeded all advance expectations. RIGHT PANEL Top Left: As at the first session, the 1963 second session of the Second Vatican Council featured attendance by Protestant and Orthodox delegate-observers. Pope Paul VI is shown here with (far right) Bishop Fred Pierce Corson of Philadelphia, president of the World Methodist Council; to the Pope’s immediate right is Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and next to Cardinal Bea, Dr. Oscar Cullman of Basel, Switzer-land, theologian of the Swiss Reformed Church. Top Right: Ecumenicity was advanced at the World Council of Churches’ Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal, Quebec -- a study session on Christian unity attended by Catholic observers. Together here at an ecumenical rally (from left) are Metropolitan Athenagoras of the Greek Orthodox Church in Canada; Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, Catholic Archbishop of Montreal; Dr. W.A. Visser ’t Hooft, WCC general secretary, and Dr. George Johnston, principal of United Theological College, Montreal. 2nd Row, Left: Dr. Franklin Clark Fry (left) of New York and Lutheran Bishop Bo Giertz of Gothenburg, Sweden, lead a procession of nearly 800 marchers during the Lutheran World Federation’s Fourth Assembly at Helsinki, Finland, in August. Dr. Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America and World Council of Churches leader, was succeeded as LWF president by Dr. Frederik A. Schiotz, head of the American Lutheran Church. In addition to discussions of Lutheran theology and the LWF’s worldwide program, the Assembly established a permanent foundation to further ecumenism through study of Catholicism and other confessions. 2nd Row, Right: An historic moment -- representatives of Eastern Orthodox Churches, at Rhodes, Greece, agreed unanimously to enter a “dialogue” with the Roman Catholic Church. Efforts to close the Orthodox-Catholic breach, dating back to 1054, also were highlighted late in the year with Pope Paul’s announced plan to travel to the Holy Land and prospects for a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Istanbul, supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy. 3rd Row, Left: Noted Evangelist Billy Graham continued to draw large crowds at his rallies. Here, at Los Angeles Coliseum, he spoke to 47,655 during a three-week Southern California Crusade. 3rd Row, Center: Alleged persecution of Buddhists by the later-overthrown Ngo Dinh Diem regime in South Vietnam was dramatically underscored by an aged monk, the Rev. Quang Duc, one of seven who burned themselves to death in protest. 3rd Row, Right: Greater Protestant unity was discussed by representatives of six denominations at a March meeting of the Consultation on Church Union at Oberlin, Ohio. Seated, from left, are Charles Parlin, Methodist layman and Consultation secretary; Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary and Consultation chairman; and the Rev. George G. Beazley Jr., of the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ). Standing, from left, are Protestant Episcopal Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr., of Richmond, Va.; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the Rev. David G. Colwell, United Church of Christ; Senior Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, and Methodist Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips of Denver, Colo. Bottom Left: The gavel of the presidency of the National Council of Churches was turned over, in December, by J. Irwin Miller, at left, Disciples of Christ layman from Columbus, Ind., to Senior Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The bishop, a well-known ecumenist, was elected to a three-year term during the NCC’s triennial General Assembly at Philadelphia, Pa. Bottom Center: Key participants in the December meeting of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism at Mexico City were, at left, Church of South India Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, who directs the WCC’s mission and evangelism division, and Dr. W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft, WCC general secretary, both from Geneva, Switzerland. Mission policies were examined by some 200 leading churchmen from 48 nations. Bottom Right: A brief, informal meeting between Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, at left, and James Cardinal McGuigan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, highlighted a general theme of the Third World Anglican Congress at Toronto in August -- greater Christian unity. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
- Creator Name(s)
- Religious News Service. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination., John XXIII, Pope, 1881-1963., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Church and social problems--United States., Presidents--Assassination--United States., Ecumenical movement--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Popes.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., United States., United States., United States.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. P-30361; 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-30361
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:352935
- Title
- Photo highlights of 1963.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-30361 PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS OF 1963 For Release: Thursday, Dec. 26, or later LEFT PANEL Top Left: President Kennedy’s body is carried to funeral services and burial in Arlington Cemetery. In his short term, the young Chief Executive stemmed fears of a Roman Catholic in the White House and was widely hailed for moving the nation toward solution of its racial problem and, by personal example, for furthering under-standing among all religions. His assassination called attention to what numerous religious leaders described as a dangerous degree of hate, arrogance and prejudice and nationwide complacency. Top Right: Death of Pope John XXIII. Large crowds kept a death watch in front of St. Peter’s Basilica at Vatican City. For his concern for all men, for his “opening the window” to renewal of the Roman Catholic Church, the pontiff was eulogized by leaders of virtually all religions. Middle Left: Devotional prayer and Bible reading in public schools was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Most of the nation complied, though there was scattered objection in eastern states and outright refusal to stop school devotions in some Southern areas. Middle Right: A first National Conference on Religion and Race solidified the Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Jewish thrust against discrimination and segregation. Leaders at the historic January meeting in Chicago included (from left) Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwaukee, Wis., chairman of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; J. Irwin Miller, then president of the National Council of Churches; Albert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago; Dr. Julius Mark, then president of the Synagogue Council of America; Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Bottom Left: A 16-member delegation from Russian Orthodox, Baptist, Lutheran, Armenian and Georgian Orthodox Churches visited the U.S. in March under auspices of the National Council of Churches. Bottom Right: Religion’s deepening role in the fight for racial justice was exemplified in the dramatic 210,000-strong “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” on Aug. 28. Participation by Protestants, Orthodox, Catholics and Jews exceeded all advance expectations. RIGHT PANEL Top Left: As at the first session, the 1963 second session of the Second Vatican Council featured attendance by Protestant and Orthodox delegate-observers. Pope Paul VI is shown here with (far right) Bishop Fred Pierce Corson of Philadelphia, president of the World Methodist Council; to the Pope’s immediate right is Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and next to Cardinal Bea, Dr. Oscar Cullman of Basel, Switzer-land, theologian of the Swiss Reformed Church. Top Right: Ecumenicity was advanced at the World Council of Churches’ Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal, Quebec -- a study session on Christian unity attended by Catholic observers. Together here at an ecumenical rally (from left) are Metropolitan Athenagoras of the Greek Orthodox Church in Canada; Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, Catholic Archbishop of Montreal; Dr. W.A. Visser ’t Hooft, WCC general secretary, and Dr. George Johnston, principal of United Theological College, Montreal. 2nd Row, Left: Dr. Franklin Clark Fry (left) of New York and Lutheran Bishop Bo Giertz of Gothenburg, Sweden, lead a procession of nearly 800 marchers during the Lutheran World Federation’s Fourth Assembly at Helsinki, Finland, in August. Dr. Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America and World Council of Churches leader, was succeeded as LWF president by Dr. Frederik A. Schiotz, head of the American Lutheran Church. In addition to discussions of Lutheran theology and the LWF’s worldwide program, the Assembly established a permanent foundation to further ecumenism through study of Catholicism and other confessions. 2nd Row, Right: An historic moment -- representatives of Eastern Orthodox Churches, at Rhodes, Greece, agreed unanimously to enter a “dialogue” with the Roman Catholic Church. Efforts to close the Orthodox-Catholic breach, dating back to 1054, also were highlighted late in the year with Pope Paul’s announced plan to travel to the Holy Land and prospects for a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Istanbul, supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy. 3rd Row, Left: Noted Evangelist Billy Graham continued to draw large crowds at his rallies. Here, at Los Angeles Coliseum, he spoke to 47,655 during a three-week Southern California Crusade. 3rd Row, Center: Alleged persecution of Buddhists by the later-overthrown Ngo Dinh Diem regime in South Vietnam was dramatically underscored by an aged monk, the Rev. Quang Duc, one of seven who burned themselves to death in protest. 3rd Row, Right: Greater Protestant unity was discussed by representatives of six denominations at a March meeting of the Consultation on Church Union at Oberlin, Ohio. Seated, from left, are Charles Parlin, Methodist layman and Consultation secretary; Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary and Consultation chairman; and the Rev. George G. Beazley Jr., of the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ). Standing, from left, are Protestant Episcopal Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr., of Richmond, Va.; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the Rev. David G. Colwell, United Church of Christ; Senior Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, and Methodist Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips of Denver, Colo. Bottom Left: The gavel of the presidency of the National Council of Churches was turned over, in December, by J. Irwin Miller, at left, Disciples of Christ layman from Columbus, Ind., to Senior Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The bishop, a well-known ecumenist, was elected to a three-year term during the NCC’s triennial General Assembly at Philadelphia, Pa. Bottom Center: Key participants in the December meeting of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism at Mexico City were, at left, Church of South India Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, who directs the WCC’s mission and evangelism division, and Dr. W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft, WCC general secretary, both from Geneva, Switzerland. Mission policies were examined by some 200 leading churchmen from 48 nations. Bottom Right: A brief, informal meeting between Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, at left, and James Cardinal McGuigan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, highlighted a general theme of the Third World Anglican Congress at Toronto in August -- greater Christian unity. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
- Creator Name(s)
- Religious News Service. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Church and social problems--United States., Presidents--Assassination--United States., Ecumenical movement--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Popes., Papal visits--Palestine.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., United States., United States., United States., Palestine.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. P-30361; 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-30361a
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:352936
- Title
- Negro attorney named to LCA Executive Council.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31262 NEGRO ATTORNEY NAMED TO LCA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PITTSBURGH -- William S. Ellis, a New York attorney (left), became the first Negro to be elected to the Executive Council of the Lutheran Church in America. He is congratulated here during the LCA’s second biennial convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., by Dr. Theodore E. Matson, president of the denomination’s Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod. Mr. Ellis, in an address to the convention, made a plea to Lutherans to “present their bodies for the picket line” in support of the new civil rights bill.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-Pit-7B-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, July 6, 1964, July 6, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Ellis, William S., Matson, Theodore E., 1906-1987.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Geographic subjects
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31262; 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-31262
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350248
- Title
- Latin Methodist: Synod of major interest.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-46086 LATIN METHODIST: SYNOD OF MAJOR INTEREST LA PAZ, Bolivia -- The Methodist Bishop of Bolivia is following the proceedings of the World Synod of Roman Catholic Bishops in Rome with more than cursory interest because the Synod's theme of evangelization "is especially significant for Latin America." “In reality," said Bishop Mortimer Arias, "this is an ecumenical search, because all of us, Roman Catholics and Protestants, are searching for an effective theology of evangelization of man in Latin America -- a theology that will liberate, humanize and conscientize Christians." The 50-year-old bishop said he hopes the Synod will "come to grips” with the theology of liberation, the theology developed in Latin America which seeks to penetrate the controversial area where the Gospel is applied to questions of social justice. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LAP-BOL-10A-74-DS)
- Creator Name(s)
- Latin American Press (Lima, Peru) (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1974
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church. Synodus Episcoporum., Arias, Mortimer., Iglesia Evangélica Metodista en Bolivia--Bishops., Iglesia Evangélica Metodista en Bolivia--Relations--Catholic Church.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Evangelistic work--Latin America., Councils and synods--Italy--Rome., Ecumenical movement., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Church and social problems--Latin America.
- Geographic subjects
- Latin America., Italy, Rome., Latin America., La Paz (Bolivia), South America--Bolivia--La Paz--La Paz
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-46086; 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-46086
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:361528
- Title
- Mississippi church burnings.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31325 MISSISSIPPI CHURCH BURNINGS McCOMB, Miss. -- Sheriff R.R. Warren of McComb, Miss., examines the charred remains of Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist church -- the 11th Negro church to be destroyed by fire in the state this summer and the second burned in the McComb area within five days. The 200-member Mr. Vernon church was organized in 1886. The widespread arson was seen as racist reaction to civil rights meetings in the Negro houses of worship. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EMC-JM-7E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Chambers, Elsie May. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, circa July 21, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church (McComb, Miss.), Warren, R. R.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Sheriffs--Mississippi--Pike County., Church buildings--Mississippi--McComb., Arson--Mississippi--McComb., African American churches--Mississippi--McComb., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--McComb., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Geographic subjects
- Mississippi, Pike County., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., McComb (Miss.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. PC-31325; 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-31325
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350295