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- Title
- Arrest of Eugene Carson Blake, 1963.
- Description
- On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.
- Creator Name(s)
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
- Date Created
- 1963, 1963, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights--Religious aspects
- Geographic subjects
- North America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
- Physical Location
- MOTION PICTURE A8, NEG A89; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- [Arrest of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake] [motion picture].--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1639
- Identifier (local)
- A89_ec_blake
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:146310
- 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