Religious News Service Photographs

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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45752 TEARS IN ATLANTA ATLANTA -- Members cry outside a church where the mother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was slain by a gunman in Atlanta. One other person was killed in the fusillade of bullets unleashed by a black man regarded by authorities as insane. The famed civil rights leader’s mother was slain as she played the organ in the church in which her son and her husband had served as pastors. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (L-7A-74-JW)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Death and burial., Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.), King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974--Assassination.
Topics:
Spouses of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Families of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Church shootings--Georgia--Atlanta., Assassination--Georgia--Atlanta., Bereavement--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358355
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-41279 ARRESTED AT A&P OFFICES NEW YORK -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, gives a clenched fist salute from a police van after he and 11 other clergymen were arrested in the building housing the national offices of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Operation Breadbasket is conducting a national campaign against the food chain, which they claim discriminates in the hiring of blacks. A&P denies the charges. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-2A-71-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Operation Breadbasket (U.S.), Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., African American clergy--New York (State)--New York., Discrimination in employment., Police--New York (State)--New York., Arrest--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358354
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Text transcribed from caption: PC 39354 TRIES TO CALM CROWD CHICAGO -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was among five persons arrested in a rock-throwing confrontation between blacks and police on the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, uses a police microphone in an attempt to quiet demonstrators. Mr. Jackson and four others were arrested when they refused to lead a group of about 600 demonstrators away from a construction site on the campus. They had gone their to press their demands for jobs for blacks at Chicago construction sites. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-9B-69-FPC)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in employment--Illinois--Chicago., Police--Illinois--Chicago., Arrest--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358351
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-37336 POOR PEOPLE’S LEADER JAILED WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Rev. Ralph Abernathy peers through the barred window of a bus taking him to jail in Washington, D.C. The head of the Southern Leadership Conference, with some 300 others, was arrested for attempting to demonstrate on the Capitol grounds. His arrest followed ouster of residents from Resurrection City by police. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-6E-68-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Poor People's Campaign., Civil rights leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--United States., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), African American clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Washington (D.C.)
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358350
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-37335 SCLC LEADERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, known as the “city manager” of Resurrection City, is shown as he embraced the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Poor People’s Campaign. Mr. Abernathy was arrested shortly after the police-enforced exodus of residents from the tent city in the nation’s capital. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-6E-68-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Poor People's Campaign., Civil rights leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--United States., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), African American clergy--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358349
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-37320 SOLIDARITY DAY WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Supporters of the Poor People’s Campaign line both sides of the Reflecting Pool and they fill the foreground at the Lincoln Memorial on Solidarity Day. Demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument, in background, and moved in an orderly manner to the Memorial. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-6D-68-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Poor People's Campaign., Picketing--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--United States., Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358348
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-34652 AMERICAN NAZIS ACTIVE IN CHICAGO RIOT CHICAGO -- Roving bands of angry whites carried signs distributed by members of the American Nazi Party in continuing protests against civil rights marches in Chicago. About 2,000 white people, largely teenagers, gathered in the southwest Chicago area as three civil rights marches took place in other neighborhoods. Several of the whites, who had been throwing rocks, bottles and firecrackers at Negro motorists, were arrested in clashes with police. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-8C-66-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Nazi Party.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Hate crimes--Illinois--Chicago., Racism--Illinois--Chicago., African Americans--Violence against--Illinois--Chicago., White supremacy movements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358346
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-34626 URGE EXTREME ACTION CHICAGO -- Among the thousands of whites who stoned and jeered civil rights marchers in Chicago during July and August, 1966, were some who urged extreme action. Members of the National States’ Rights Party and the American Nazi Party were active participants in the anti-March protests. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-8A-66-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Nazi Party., National States Rights Party (U.S.)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Hate crimes--Illinois--Chicago., Racism--Illinois--Chicago., African Americans--Violence against--Illinois--Chicago., White supremacy movements--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358345
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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:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
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--Race relations., Hernando (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358344
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-29923 IN MEMORIAM: RED VESTMENTS FOR MARTYRS SAN FRANCISCO -- Typical of hundreds of churches across the United States was this scene in San Francisco. On Sunday, Sept. 22, the nation’s churchgoers joined in memorial services for four Negro girls who died when a bomb blasted a Negro Baptist church in Birmingham. Here, at St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic church, the more than 2,500 attending services overflowed the building. They fell to their knees on the sidewalk during a Mass offered for the dead children. The priest wore vestments in the “red of martyrdom” instead of the black of mourning. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9D-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., St. Dominic’s Church (San Francisco, Calif.), Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Topics:
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963., Memorial service., Mass.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358130
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-29887 BODY REMOVED FROM BOMBED BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The body of one of four young Negro girls killed in the bombing of 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., is removed from the shattered basement. The youngsters, one 11 and three 14 years old, were studying their Sunday school lesson on the subject, “The Love That Forgives,” when explosions ripped through the church. A rope-barricade and armed troopers held a gathering crowd away from the blast area. Outraged Negroes ultimately heeded pleas by the pastor of the church, the Rev. John Cross, to disperse. From across the nation, religious leaders urged action to prevent further violence in racially-tense Birmingham. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9C-63-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
Topics:
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963., Domestic terrorism--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham., First responders--Alabama--Birmingham., Racism--Alabama--Birmingham.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.), Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358129
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-29799 SCHOOL IGNORES COURT PRAYER BAN SOMERSET, Pa. -- Despite the Supreme Court ruling, this class begins its day with religious exercises. Mrs. Eleanor Engle reads the Bible to second-grade pupils, at top, and leads them in prayer as the fall semester opened at the new Berlin Brothers Valley Elementary School, near Somerset, Pa. The school district was one of five in Somerset County that voted to continue devotional exercises despite the ban imposed by the Supreme Court. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-8E-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Engle, Eleanor., Berlin Brothers Valley Elementary School (Somerset County, Pa.)
Topics:
Prayer in the public schools--United States., Religion in the public schools--United States., Prayer in the public schools--Pennsylvania--Somerset County., Religion in the public schools--Pennsylvania--Somerset County., Bible--Study and teaching., School children--Pennsylvania--Somerset County.
Geographic subjects:
Somerset County (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358120
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-29703 BIGOTS BURN CROSS IN CHICAGO CHICAGO -- A cross burns in a Chicago street amid racial tensions. Northern segregationists put a torch to the six-foot wooden cross as a sign of their opposition to the move-in of a Negro family at an apartment house. They were not apprehended. The police car at right was used to knock down the cross and patrolmen quenched the flames. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-8A-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago., Segregation--Illinois--Chicago., Crosses--Illinois--Chicago., Racism--Illinois--Chicago., Police vehicles--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Englewood (Chicago, Ill.), Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358113
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Text transcribed from caption: C-29939 PAPAL TRIBUTE VIA TELSTAR WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A giant screen at Georgetown University bears the image of Pope Paul VI as he congratulates the school on the start of its 175th anniversary year. From his private library in the Vatican, the pontiff read a message in which he described the Jesuit institution as the alma mater of Catholic colleges in the U.S. The program was televised via the Telstar communications satellite on the Pope’s 66th birthday. Georgetown was founded in 1789, the same year in which the U.S. Constitution was adopted. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-WASH-9D-63-RB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978--Birth., Georgetown University--Anniversaries, etc., Georgetown University--Students., Georgetown University.
Topics:
Popes., Anniversaries., Project Telstar., Catholic universities and colleges--Washington (D.C.), Universities and colleges--Washington (D.C.), Artificial satellites in telecommunication.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358073
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Text transcribed from caption: C-29891 NUN CARES FOR TINY QUINTUPLET ABERDEEN, S.D. -- A nursing nun at St. Luke’s Hospital, Aberdeen, S.D., holds one of the quintuplets born to Mrs. Andrew Fischer. The quints, ranging in weight from 2 ½ to 4 pounds, received the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation immediately after their birth. Mr. and Mrs. Fischer have five other children. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9C-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., St. Luke’s Hospital (Aberdeen, S.D.)
Topics:
Nuns--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Multiple birth--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Quintuplets--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Nuns as nurses--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Infants--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Geographic subjects:
Aberdeen (S.D.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358063
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Text transcribed from caption: C-29890 SACRAMENTS ADMINISTERED TO QUINTUPLET ABERDEEN, S.D. -- A quintuplet is baptized and confirmed on the day of his birth. James Andrew Fischer, only boy of the five children born to Mrs. Andrew Fischer, is blessed by Bishop Lambert A. Hoch of Sioux Falls, S.D., as he lays in his isolette at St. Luke’s hospital in Aberdeen, S.D. His four sisters also received the Sacraments from the prelate, who exercised a privilege to administer Confirmation to the very young. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9C-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Fischer, James Andrew., Hoch, Lambert A., Catholic Church--Bishops., St. Luke’s Hospital (Aberdeen, S.D.)
Topics:
Bishops--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Multiple birth--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Quintuplets--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Sacraments--Catholic Church., Baptism--Catholic Church., Confirmation--Catholic Church., Baptism--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Confirmation--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Geographic subjects:
Aberdeen (S.D.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358062
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Text transcribed from caption: C-29889 A BIG FAMILY GROWS BIGGER ABERDEEN, S.D. -- The Andrew Fischer family of Aberdeen, S.D., before the arrival of quintuplets on Sept. 14. Mrs. Fischer gave birth to four girls and a boy at St. Luke’s Hospital in Aberdeen. This picture taken in 1961 shows Mr. and Mrs. Fischer with, from left, Julie, Danny, Charlotte, Evelyn and Denise. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9C-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Fischer, Andrew., Fischer, Mary Ann., Fischer, Julie., Fischer, Danny., Fischer, Charlotte., Fischer, Evelyn., Fischer, Denise.
Topics:
Families--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Multiple birth--South Dakota--Aberdeen., Quintuplets--South Dakota--Aberdeen.
Geographic subjects:
Aberdeen (S.D.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358061
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Text transcribed from caption: C-29886 PRIEST BACKS CUBA VISITORS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Father Felix McGowan, M.M., a priest suspended by his superiors in the Maryknoll order, has thrown his support behind some 50 students who went on an unauthorized trip to Cuba. He is shown here as he addressed the students at a Washington rally. Father McGowan, a former missionary in Bolivia, was suspended from his priestly duties after he himself went to Cuba as a reporter for The Catholic Worker, a periodical published in New York. The suspended Maryknoller commented that there is religious freedom in Cuba. “All the churches are open. Priests can preach. Anybody can go to church,” he said. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-WASH-9C-63-RB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy., McGowan, Felix., Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America.
Topics:
Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Journalists--Washington (D.C.), Freedom of religion--Cuba.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.), Cuba--Foreign relations--1959-1990., United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358060
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Text transcribed from caption: C-29743 RESIGNS UNDER PRESSURE BRAZZAVILLE -- President Fulbert Youlou, head of the Congo Republic, resigned his office as tension mounted in his capital at Brazzaville. A suspended priest, he is shown in clerical robes in 1959 as he left a conference in Elysee Palace in Paris. Before his election, Youlou was a parish priest who was forbidden to say Mass because of his political activity. After riots in Brazzaville subsided, Sime Matsika, a labor leader, began to emerge as a strong man -- some sources said he was a dedicated leftist trained in Peking. A provisional government was being maintained by the Congolese Army, a native force commanded by Lt. Col. Rene Jean of the French Army. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-BR-8C-63-RB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Youlou, Fulbert, 1917-1972., Youlou, Fulbert, 1917-1972--Resignation from office.
Topics:
Presidents--Congo (Brazzaville), Church and politics--Congo (Brazzaville), Church and politics--Catholic Church., Civil war--Congo (Brazzaville)
Geographic subjects:
Paris (France), Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358036
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Text transcribed from caption: (ALB1)ALBANY, GA., Aug. 5--KING’S CHILDREN HELP PACK EXTRA PROVISIONS-- Mrs. Martin Luther King, wife of the jailed integration leader, Rev. Martin Luther King, gets an assist from their three children as they pack this picnic basket with extra provisions. This is the 10th day the Atlanta pastor has spent in jail for his integration activity. From left are: Martin Luther King, III, four-years-old; Yolanda Denise King, 6; and Dexter Scott King, 18-months old. Dexter was named after the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery, Ala., where his father started is integration work about six years ago. (fn11925fn) 1962
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., King, Yolanda., King, Martin Luther, III., King, Dexter, 1961-, King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Imprisonment.
Topics:
Children of clergy--Georgia--Albany., Spouses of clergy--Georgia--Albany., Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany., Civil rights movements--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Albany (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358023

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