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Title: 97,500 hear evangelist during Birmingham crusade.
Description: Article written for the Religious News Service.
Date Created: 1965, June 21, 1965, June 21, 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topical Subject(s): Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Montgomery--Alabama--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32732; 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-32732_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:150721

Title: White and Negro youths answer evangelist's call.
Description: About 500 white and black youths come forward to make "decisions for Christ" in answer to a call by Billy Graham during his interracial crusade in Montgomery.
Creator Name(s): Crusade Information Service (Atlanta, Ga.) (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, ca. June 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topical Subject(s): Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Youth--Religious life--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Montgomery--Alabama--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32729; 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-32729
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151431

Title: Police arrest Dr. King for loitering.
Description: PP-22643 POLICE ARREST DR. KING FOR "LOITERING" MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is hustled off to jail by Montgomery police where he was detained for 15 minutes on a charge of loitering. Dr. King, leader of the Negro boycott against Jim Crow buses here in 1956, was arrested outside a City Hall courtroom where he had gone to attend a hearing for a Negro accused of attacking an integration leader. The 29-year-old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church here accused the police of beating and kicking him. He was released in $100 bond. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-9A-58-JS).
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1958, September 4, 1958, September 4, 1958
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 22643; 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): ds2931
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7465

Title: Evangelist meets with Negro leaders in South.
Description: Evangelist Billy Graham meets with African American leaders during his interracial crusade in Montgomery, Ala.
Creator Name(s): Crusade Information Service (Atlanta, Ga.) (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, ca. June 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018., Watkins, Levi., Williams, Larry H., Owens, James H.
Topical Subject(s): Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Montgomery--Alabama--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32732; 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-32732
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151359

Title: Youth night at Graham crusade.
Description: Upraised hands in answer to a question on age by Billy Graham testify to the preponderance of young people in the congregation of some 10,000 persons attending a special youth night service during the evangelist's Montgomery, Ala., crusade.
Creator Name(s): Crusade Information Service (Atlanta, Ga.) (publisher)
Date Created: 1965, ca. June 1965
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Topical Subject(s): Revivals--Alabama--Montgomery., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Youth--Religious life--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Montgomery--Alabama--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 109, image no. P-32730; 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-32730
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:151630

Title: Church World Service press release, 1963.
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (author)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Air Force--Chaplains., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Air University (U.S.), Lanford, Conway.
Topical Subject(s): Church and mass media--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Protestant churches.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. PC-30354; 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-30354_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:352721

Title: TV for Sunday school.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-30354 TV FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Sunday school lesson in a new format -- via closed-circuit television. Here Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Conway Lanford, religious education supervisor at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., is shown as he delivered a Sunday school message for children of base personnel. Devoted to the SOS (Share Our Substance) program of Church World Service, the talk was taped and then piped into the Air Command and Staff College building which is used for Protestant Sunday school classes. The Air University Television Department cooperated in the program, believed to be the first use of closed-circuit TV in a U.S. Sunday school. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JJM-NY-12B-63-W)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Air Force--Chaplains., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Air University (U.S.), Lanford, Conway.
Topical Subject(s): Church and mass media--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Protestant churches.
Geographic subjects: Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.), Maxwell Air Force Base (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. PC-30354; 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-30354
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:352987

Title: Principals in Alabama bus boycott.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #PBLEM-18874 PRINCIPALS IN ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott here protesting segregation in city buses. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19 for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December after a Negro seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Negro riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-RAM-3C-56-NAB-PBLEM)
Creator Name(s): Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Date Created: 1956, March 1956, March 1956
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., Bennett, L. Roy., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hubbard, H.H., Nixon, Edgar Daniel.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., United States, Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PBLEM-18874; 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_PBLEM-18874
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358342

Title: Ministers, religion professors jailed as Freedom Riders.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PF-26262 MINISTERS, RELIGION PROFESSORS JAILED AS FREEDOM RIDERS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- These “Freedom Riders” were smiling as they arrived here by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they sought service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr. David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; George B. Smith (head partially visible), Negro law student at Yale University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group; the Rev. Gaylor [Gaylord] Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, Negro theological students at Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Others arrested at the “white only” counter were four Negro integration leaders, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist church here; the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth of Birmingham; the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, an executive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Bernard S. Lee, one of nine students expelled from Alabama State College last year for trying to stage a sit-in demonstration. Another Negro leader, the Rev. Solomon S. Seay, executive secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was short in the wrist the same day, reportedly by a white man in a passing car. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-5D-61-DP)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1961, May 1961, May 1961
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Maguire, John David., Swift, David Everett, 1914-, Smith, George Bundy., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Noyce, Gaylord B., Carter, Clyde Larocque., Jones, Charles, 1937-2019.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects: United States., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., Alabama, Montgomery., United States, Montgomery (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PF-26262; 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_PF-26262
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358357

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