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Title: UCC leaders express civil rights support.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): World Council of Churches. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, March 17, 1964, March 17, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., United Church of Christ--Clergy., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Gibbons, Ray., General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches of the United States. Council for Social Action., Herbster, Ben M., 1904-, Hood, Nicholas, 1951-, Douglass, Truman B.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Law and legislation--United States., Legislators--United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-30735; 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-30735_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353567

Title: UCC leaders express civil rights support.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-30735 UCC LEADERS EXPRESS CIVIL RIGHTS SUPPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An expression of United Church of Christ support for passage of the pending civil rights bill was carried to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.), second from left, by four national leaders of the United Church of Christ. The churchmen were among more than 100 delegates of the denomination, a group described as a "first wave" of ministers and laymen who traveled to Washington, D.C., to urge passage of the legislation "without crippling amendments." With Sen. Humphrey, the Senate majority whip, from left, are Dr. Ray Gibbons of New York, director of the UCC Council for Christian Social Action; Dr. Ben M. Herbster, New York, UCC Council for Christian Social Action; Dr. Ben M. Herbster, New York, UCC president; the Rev. Nicholas Hood of Detroit, chairman of the denomination's Committee for Racial Justice Now, and Dr. Truman B. Douglass, New York, executive vice president of the UCC Board for Homeland Ministries. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (UC-NY-3C-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): World Council of Churches. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, March 17, 1964, March 17, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., United Church of Christ--Clergy., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Gibbons, Ray., General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches of the United States. Council for Social Action., Herbster, Ben M., 1904-, Hood, Nicholas, 1951-, Douglass, Truman B.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Law and legislation--United States., Legislators--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-30735; 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-30735
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353829

Title: To the White House.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Date Created: 1965, February 9, 1965, February 9, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., White House (Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Voter registration--Alabama--Selma., Vice presidents--United States., Suffrage--United States., Civil rights--United States.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32133; 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-32133_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355792

Title: Dr. King meets with president.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-32133 DR. KING MEETS WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is escorted by Vice President Humphrey to the White House for a meeting with President Johnson to discuss the Negro voter registration drive in Selma, Ala. After the conference, the noted Negro Baptist leader said the President “made it clear to me that he plans to offer legislation to Congress specifically on voting rights.” Dr. King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, spent five days in the Dallas County, Ala., jail. He was arrested on charges of parading without a police permit in Selma where he led demonstrations for Negro registrations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-2B-65-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, February 9, 1965, February 9, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., White House (Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights movements--United States., Voter registration--Alabama--Selma., Vice presidents--United States., Suffrage--United States., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), United States., Alabama, Selma., United States., United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), Selma (Ala.), Alabama, North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32133; 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-32133
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:355943

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

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