Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Assault victims address Presbyterian assembly.
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Text transcribed from caption: P-31073 ASSAULT VICTIMS ADDRESS PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY OKLAHOMA CITY - Two United Presbyterian clergymen, the Rev. Alexander Stuart of Oak Ridge, Tenn. (center) and the Rev. Geddes Orman of Knoxville, Tenn., described being attacked by a gun-wielding racist in Camden, Ala., to delegates to the 176th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. They pose here with Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, left, chief executive officer of the denomination, which convened in Oklahoma City. The clergymen, who said they had gone to Alabama on ecclesiastical business, were accused by a man who broke into their hotel room of trying to “stir up” Negroes. The assailant beat Mr. Stuart with a shotgun, breaking the clergyman’s arm, and fired a pistol shot at the clergymen as they broke away and escaped in opposite directions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-OK-5E-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (176th : 1964 : Oklahoma City, Okla.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Stuart, Alexander Montgomery, 1926-, Orman, Geddes.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy., Congresses and conventions--Oklahoma--Oklahoma City., Victims of crimes--Oklahoma--Oklahoma City.
Geographic subjects:
Oklahoma City (Okla.), Alabama--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350210

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