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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Arrested at A&P offices.
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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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Poor People's leader jailed.
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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.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358350
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SCLC leaders.
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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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Solidarity Day.
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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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Dr. King wins Nobel Peace Prize.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31714 DR. KING WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ATLANTA, Ga. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who has led the non-violent movement for civil rights in America for some ten years, was named to receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The noted Baptist minister received the news from his wife by phone while at St. Joseph’s Infirmary, a Catholic hospital in Atlanta, where he had gone for a physical check-up. He said that “every penny” of the award money -- expected to be more than $54,000 -- would go for the civil rights movement. Dr. King is founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, dedicated to promoting equal rights for all Negroes. He is the second American Negro and the youngest person -- at 35 -- to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In September, Dr. King was received by Pope Paul VI in private audience at the Vatican. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-10C-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., St. Joseph’s Infirmary (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
Nobel Prize winners--Georgia--Atlanta., African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta., African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Catholic hospitals--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356667
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Negroes in 'massive assault' on bias.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31141 NEGROES IN ‘MASSIVE ASSAULT’ ON BIAS ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.-More racial demonstrations were in store for St. Augustine as Negro integration leaders held a press conference to announce the “beginning of a massive assault on segregation” in the city--scene of violence between whites and Negroes. Clergy leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are seated at table during the press interview, with pickets carrying signs standing the background. Left to right are Dr. R. B. Hayling, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. Ralph Abernathy. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6B-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Hayling, Robert Bagner., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Florida--Saint Augustine., Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine., Press conferences--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350274
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NCC trains students for Mississippi program.
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Text transcribed from caption: P-31179 NCC TRAINS STUDENTS FOR MISSISSIPPI PROGRAM OXFORD, Ohio -- Problems expected to be encountered by college students going to Mississippi this summer to conduct voter registration and education sessions for Negroes are outlined at an orientation session at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio. The week-long training period was held by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race, in cooperation with civil rights groups which are sponsoring the “freedom schools.” Here, the Rev. Bruce Hanson, NCC official heading the orientation program, is flanked by Robert Moses (left), of New York, director of the Mississippi program for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and James Forman of Atlanta, executive secretary of the SNCC. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-6C-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Western College for Women--Students., Mississippi Freedom Project., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Hanson, Donald Bruce., Moses, Robert Parris., Forman, James, 1928-2005., United Church of Christ--Clergy.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Ohio--Oxford., College students--Ohio--Oxford., Women college students--Ohio--Oxford., Clergy--Ohio--Oxford., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Oxford (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350228
Title:
Negro leaders confer on demonstrations.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31355 NEGRO LEADERS CONFER ON DEMONSTRATIONS NEW YORK--Negro leaders of four major civil rights groups called for a “broad curtailment” of mass demonstrations until after the Presidential election. Their appeal was issued following a meeting in New York. Shown around the conference table are from left, Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; Jack Greenberg, NAACP attorney; Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; and A. Philip Randolph, chairman of the Negro American Labor Council. Not all of the conference participants supported the appeal. Before the meeting, Dr. King conferred with Mayor Rober F. Wagner on ways to ease racial tensions and raise the economic status of Negroes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-7E-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Greenberg, Jack, 1924-2016., NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund., Young, Whitney M., National Urban League., Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999., Congress of Racial Equality., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Southern Christian Leadership Conference., Lewis, John, 1940-2020., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., African American civil rights workers., Forums (Discussion and debate)--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349188

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