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Title: Clergymen support Mississippi rights effort.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-31682 CLERGYMEN SUPPORT MISSISSIPPI RIGHTS EFFORT McCOMB, Miss. -- Five Protestant Episcopal clergymen -- part of an interdenominational group of 20 ministers who spent a week working with civil rights volunteers in Mississippi -- stand in front of the bomb-blasted Society Hill Baptist church at McComb. Sixteen structures used by civil rights workers were bombed in the McComb area from June 21 to the end of September, four of them churches which were totally destroyed. The National Council of Churches race commission planned to send groups of clergymen to Mississippi to assist rights workers through the fall and winter. Shown here (left to right) are the Rev. Bruce Young of Attleboro, Mass.; the Rev. Thomas D. Allen and the Rev. Quinlan Gordon of Washington, D.C.; the Rev. Malcolm Boyd of Detroit, Mich., and the Rev. Earl A. Neil of Chicago. During their stay in McComb, Mr. Allen, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Boyd and Mr. Neil attempted to visit 24 Negroes who had been arrested for “criminal syndicalism,” a Mississippi law which forbids virtually any activity which promotes social or political change. In spite of repeated requests to county officials, they were denied permission to see the prisoners. “We had a feeling that we were completely outside the United States and were being treated as enemy aliens,” Mr. Boyd said. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PSH-DC-10B-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): Hutchinson, Philip S. (contributor)
Date Created: 1964, circa October 1, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church (McComb, Miss.), Episcopal Church--Clergy., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Young, Bruce., Allen, Thomas D., Gordon, Quinlan., Boyd, Malcolm, 1923-2015., Neil, Earl A.
Topical Subject(s): Clergy--Mississippi--McComb., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Episcopal Church., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--McComb., African American churches--Mississippi--McComb., Church buildings--Mississippi--McComb., Bombings--Mississippi--McComb.
Geographic subjects: Mississippi, McComb., United States., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., Mississippi, McComb., McComb (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Pike--McComb
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31682; 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-31682
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356664

Title: Injunction served during racial prayer service.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29735 INJUNCTION SERVED DURING RACIAL PRAYER SERVICE CLARKSDALE, Miss. -- One of the few Clarksdale, Miss., white men to step inside the city’s First Baptist church during a prayer service for racial unity was a county deputy sheriff. He served an injunction on two of 36 ministers from several states who traveled to Clarksdale at the request of the National Council of Churches’ special Commission on Religion and Race. The injunction, while not applicable to the religious observance in the Negro church, was a sweeping ban against virtually all types of integration demonstrations. None of the approximately 20 white Clarksdale clergymen took part in the prayer service. The NCC commission and Clarksdale Negro ministers held the service in an effort to establish communication with local authorities. The injuction was handed here to the Rev. Brad Minturn, left, a Protestant Episcopal minister of Silver Spring, Md., and the Rev. Gerald Forshey, a leader of the Interracial Council of Methodists in Chicago, Ill. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8C-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963
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., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Minturn, Brad., Forshey, Gerald Eugene, 1932-, Methodist Church (U.S.)--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Clarksdale., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Prayer--Mississippi--Clarksdale., Injunctions--Mississippi--Clarksdale., Clergy--Mississippi--Clarksdale., Sheriffs--Mississippi--Coahoma County.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Mississippi, Coahoma County., Clarksdale (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Coahoma--Clarksdale
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29735; 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-29735
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358085

Title: Procession opens racial prayer service.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-29736 PROCESSION OPENS RACIAL PRAYER SERVICE CLARKSDALE, Miss. -- A bi-racial group of 36 ministers from 11 states and the District of Columbia joined Clarksdale, Miss., Negro clergymen in a prayer service for the “healing of Christ’s body torn apart by racial segregation.” The visitors went to the heavily-segregated city at the request of the National Council of Churches’ special Commission on Religion and Race, which has tried to open integration discussions with local authorities. The service in the Negro First Baptist church was preceded by a gathering of the clergymen in the nearby Haven Methodist church, also a Negro congregation. Leading a procession to the interracial service -- which drew only a handful of Clarksdale whites and no local white clergymen -- were Dr. Robert Dodds, right, of New York City, general director of planning for the NCC, and the Rev. C.D. Coleman of Memphis, Tenn., general secretary of the Board of Christian Education, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8C-63-NBM)
Creator Name(s): National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)
Date Created: 1963
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., Dodds, Robert C., Coleman, C. D. (Coleman D.), Christian Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Clarksdale., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation--Mississippi--Clarksdale., Clergy--Mississippi--Clarksdale.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Mississippi, Clarksdale., Clarksdale (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Coahoma--Clarksdale
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-29736; 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-29736
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358086

Title: Rights leaders pushed off road.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-34393 RIGHTS LEADERS PUSHED OFF ROAD HERNANDO, Miss. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Negro civil rights leaders, are pushed off the road at they resume a voters march begun by James Meredith. Later they continued their walk, marching single file along the highway’s shoulder. Mr. Meredith was short from ambush by a white man as he was marching from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, capital of Mississippi, in an effort to encourage Negro voting in the state’s primary election. Religious leaders were quick to condemn the shooting and called for greater efforts in behalf of Negro voting rights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-6B-66-NAB)
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date Created: 1966, June 1966, June 1966
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hernando., Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hernando., Voter registration--Mississippi., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., Clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., African American clergy--Mississippi--Hernando., Police--Mississippi--Hernando.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi, Hernando., Mississippi, Hernando., United States, Hernando (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--DeSoto--Hernando
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-34393; 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-34393
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358344

Title: Integration in Mississippi.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-39919 INTEGRATION IN MISSISSIPPI WEST POINT, Miss. -- A white girl waits with Negro students as the formerly all-black Southside Elementary School in West Point, Miss., for the doors to open for second semester registration. Registration proceeded without incident. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-JKS-2A-70-DS)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1970, January 1970, January 1970
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States., School integration--Mississippi--West Point., Children--Mississippi--West Point., School children--Mississippi--West Point.
Geographic subjects: United States., Mississippi, West Point., Mississippi, West Point., Mississippi, West Point., United States, West Point (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Clay--West Point
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-39919; 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-39919
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:358352

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