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Title: "Operation sandwich" aids hungry Washington marchers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29790 ‘OPERATION SANDWICH’ AIDS HUNGRY WASHINGTON MARCHERS NEW YORK -- Eighty-thousand cheese sandwiches, with apples and pieces of marble cake, were packed into lunchboxes at Riverside Church in New York City, then rushed in refrigerated trucks to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The project to “feed the multitude” of hungry marchers was sponsored by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. At top, Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, and Dr. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, NCC coordinator of March activities, dedicate the lunches “for the nourishment of thousands” who went to Washington “to say with their bodies and souls that ‘we shall overcome,’” racial injustice. In the bottom photo, some of more than 400 volunteers -- Catholics and Jews as well as Protestants -- assemble the lunches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, circa August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Luncheons--New York (State)--New York., Sandwiches--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29790; 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-29790a
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358094

Title: Lunches for civil rights marchers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29791 LUNCHES FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHERS NEW YORK -- Interracial and interreligious -- that was the theme of a giant sandwich packaging program carried on by the National Council of Churches, which prepared 80,000 box lunches for participants in the civil rights march on Washington. Roman Catholic nuns joined Protestant and Orthodox volunteers in a 13-hour project carried out in the hall of Riverside Church in New York City. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-8E-63-W)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Luncheons--Washington (D.C.), Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York., Sandwiches--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), Washington (D.C.), New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29791; 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-29791
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358119

Title: National Council of Churches staff employees.
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (author)
Date Created: 1963, August 15, 1963, August 15, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Hedgeman, Merritt., Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Singing--New York (State)--New York., Music rehearsals--New York (State)--New York.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29748; 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-29748_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357748

Title: NCC chorus rehearses for Washington march.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29748 NCC CHORUS REHEARSES FOR WASHINGTON MARCH NEW YORK -- “Freedom Songs,” which have become increasingly familiar across the nation with the accelerating pace of demonstrations for racial justice, were to have a place in the massive civil rights march on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28. One musical group scheduled to take part in the demonstration was comprised of volunteers from the National Council of Churches staff in New York City. The chorus shown rehearsing above is lead [sic] by Merrill [Merritt] Hedgeman well-known concert artist. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8D-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, August 15, 1963, August 15, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Hedgeman, Merritt., Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Singing--New York (State)--New York., Music rehearsals--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects: United States., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29748; 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-29748
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358089

Title: "Operation sandwich" aids hungry Washington marchers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29790 ‘OPERATION SANDWICH’ AIDS HUNGRY WASHINGTON MARCHERS NEW YORK -- Eighty-thousand cheese sandwiches, with apples and pieces of marble cake, were packed into lunchboxes at Riverside Church in New York City, then rushed in refrigerated trucks to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The project to “feed the multitude” of hungry marchers was sponsored by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. At top, Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, and Dr. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, NCC coordinator of March activities, dedicate the lunches “for the nourishment of thousands” who went to Washington “to say with their bodies and souls that ‘we shall overcome,’” racial injustice. In the bottom photo, some of more than 400 volunteers -- Catholics and Jews as well as Protestants -- assemble the lunches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8E-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963, circa August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Luncheons--New York (State)--New York., Sandwiches--New York (State)--New York., Benediction--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects: United States., Washington (D.C.), New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29790; 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-29790
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358093

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