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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: Dr. William Foxwell Albright.
Description: Text transcribed from Religious News Service log book: William Albright. Professor of archeology - Johns Hopkins Univ.
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971., Johns Hopkins University--Faculty.
Topical Subject(s): College teachers--Maryland--Baltimore., Archaeology--Study and teaching.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Baltimore., Baltimore (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore Independent City--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. 30816; 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_30816
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:348319

Title: Church services planned to press for civil rights.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-30651 CHURCH SERVICES PLANNED TO PRESS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BALTIMORE, Md. -- If the pending civil rights bill hasn't been passed by Easter, daily worship services to express support of the legislation will begin in Washington, D.C. churches in the following week, it was announced at a meeting of the General Board of the National Council of Churches at Baltimore. Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, and Dr. Anna Hedgeman, director of special events for the commission, called for the services by Protestant and Orthodox churches. They said other religions may join in sponsoring the worship and prayer demonstration, participating in an initial mass meeting and then holding their own services. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-2E-64-NBM)
Creator Name(s): United Press International. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, February 25-28, 1964, February 25-28, 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. National Lay Committee., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990., Lord Baltimore Hotel (Baltimore, Md.)
Topical Subject(s): Passive resistance--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., Baltimore (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore Independent City--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-30651; 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-30651
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:353817

Title: Ready for shipment to the world's needy.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: READY FOR SHIPMENT TO THE WORLD’S NEEDY #1191 [sic] NEW WINDSOR, Md. -- These bales of clothes and other relief articles are only a small part of the shipments prepared at the Church Committee on Overseas Relief and Rehabilitation warehouse here. More than 100 workers are kept busy handling the 40 to 50 tons of goods received each week. The CCORR has similar warehouses at Modesto, Calif., Dayton Ohio, and Boston. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JME-BA-MES-1-6-W)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Church Committee for Overseas Relief and Reconstruction.
Topical Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief., International relief., Emergency clothing supply.
Geographic subjects: New Windsor (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Carroll--New Windsor
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 1611; 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_1611
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357369

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