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Title: Eugene Carson Blake arrested.
Description: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.
Creator Name(s): Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29572; 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): ds3157
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7398

Title: Catholic council honors Protestant civil rights leader.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30501 CATHOLIC COUNCIL HONORS PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER CHICAGO -- An awards dinner of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, where Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., was honored for civil rights leadership, was described as "one of the most important examples of the ecumenical movement on the local level." Auxiliary Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (right) presents the first John F. Kennedy Award to Dr. Blake. Other participants in the dinner included the Rev. Ulysses B. Blakeley, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chicago, who said grace, and Rabbi Irving J. Rosenbaum of the Chicago Loop Synagogue, who delivered the benediction. Dr. Blake, a leader of the National Council of Churches' anti-discrimination effort and a personal participant in integration demonstrations, called on American religious groups to recognize their responsibility to lead the first fight against racial injustice. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-C-ID-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (author)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Hillinger, Raymond P., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Chicago (Ill.), Catholic Inter-Racial Council (Chicago, Ill.)--Congresses., Catholic Church--Relations--Presbyterian Church., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Conrad Hilton Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights workers--United States., Award presentations--Illinois--Chicago., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects: United States., Illinois, Chicago., Illinois, Chicago., Chicago (Ill.), North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Chicago
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30501; 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-30501
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353836

Title: NCC conference probes church-state problems.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-30574 NCC CONFERENCE PROBES CHURCH-STATE PROBLEMS COLUMBUS, Ohio -- About 400 delegates from Protestant denominations, plus two dozen Roman Catholic and Jewish participating-observers, probed delicate church-state problems at the first National Study Conference on Church and State sponsored by the National Council of Churches at Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (right), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., served as chairman. Key "position papers" outlining various attitudes toward government endorsement of religion and federal aid to church-related institutions were presented by: (left to right) Dr. William C. Robinson of Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga.; Dr. W. Astor Kirk of Washington, D.C., public affairs director in the Methodist Board of Christian Concerns; Dr. John Dillenberger, dean of graduate studies and professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and Irwin W. Cobb, Jr., United Presbyterian attorney from Boston, Mass. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-C-2B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Agner International Photos (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Robinson, Wm. Childs (William Childs), 1897-1982., Columbia Theological Seminary--Faculty., Kirk, William Astor., Methodist Church (U.S.). General Board of Christian Social Concerns., Dillenberger, John., San Francisco Theological Seminary--Faculty., Cobb, Irwin W., Jr.
Topical Subject(s): Congresses and conventions--Ohio--Columbus., Interdenominational cooperation., Church and state--United States.
Geographic subjects: Ohio, Columbus., United States., Columbus (Ohio), North and Central America--United States--Ohio--Franklin--Columbus
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30574; 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-30574
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353849

Title: Religious leaders greet woman in famed 'bus' case.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-29797 RELIGIOUS LEADERS GREET WOMAN IN FAMED ‘BUS’ CASE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Three religious leaders participating in the March on Washington, greet a Negro woman whose arrest made headlines in 1955. Mrs. Rosa Parks is shown with, left to right, Father John F. Cronin of the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; and Rabbi Joachin Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. In 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested when she refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give her seat to a white person. Her case was one of several that aroused the nation, helped weld Negroes and white in campaigns that culminated in the March on Washington. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-WN-8E-63-W)
Creator Name(s): Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, August 28, 1963, August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., American Jewish Congress., Cronin, John F. (John Francis), 1908-1994., National Catholic Welfare Conference. Social Action Department., Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956., Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.), Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects., Rabbis--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects: Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29797; 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-29797
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7253

Title: World Council leaders condemns racists.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29818 WORLD COUNCIL LEADERS CONDEMNS RACISTS ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Christians who support segregation “by action or inaction” betray Jesus Christ, leaders of the World Council of Churches declared at Rochester, N.Y. The WCC’s powerful, policy-making Central Committee issued what was regarded as its strongest condemnation of discrimination. Examining the statement here are, from left to right: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Sir Francis Ibiam of Nigeria, one of the six presidents of the WCC, and Methodist Bishop James K. Matthews of Boston. Dr. Blake and Bishop Matthews took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Presbyterian leader served as one of the 10 chairmen of the demonstration, representing the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-ROCH-9A-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): World Council of Churches. (publisher), Taylor, John. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963, circa August 28, 1963
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Colgate Rochester Divinity School., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Ibiam, Akanu., Matthews, James K., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject(s): Bishops--New York (State)--Rochester., Clergy--New York (State)--Rochester., Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--Rochester., Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects: New York (State), Rochester., New York (State), Rochester., New York (State), Rochester., United States., Rochester (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--Monroe--Rochester
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29818; 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-29818
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358098

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