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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Seminarians march for civil rights.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30976 SEMINARIANS MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Students from Lutheran and Catholic seminaries at Fort Wayne, Ind., used a campaign appearance there by segregationist Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama as an occasion for a joint demonstration in support of the civil rights bill. The seminarians, and five Lutheran professors, marched and disturbed anti-discrimination literature outside a hotel where Gov. Wallace held a press conference. Participating were 125 students from Concordia Senior College, a pre-theological liberal arts college of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and about 30 from the Crosier House of Studies, a seminary of the Crosier Fathers. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RO-FW-5B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.)--Students., Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod., Crosier Fathers. Crosier House of Study--Students.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Indiana--Fort Wayne., Interdenominational cooperation--Indiana--Fort Wayne., Governors--Alabama., Primaries--Indiana., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Indiana--Fort Wayne.
Geographic subjects:
Fort Wayne (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348337

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