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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Title:
Demonstrate against PLO.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: J-46237 DEMONSTRATE AGAINST PLO NEW YORK -- Demonstrators who were protesting against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stage a brief sit-in in the lobby of New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where a contingent of PLO members were staying. The Palestinians had arrived in New York to take part in the United Nations General Assembly debate on Palestine. Some 300 demonstrators were at the hotel when 16 PLO representatives arrived with a police escort. Police managed to keep the demonstrators away from the PLO party but a small group slipped past the police into the lobby. Before being persuaded by police and hotel security men to leave, the demonstrators went up to a clerk and demanded a room. When the clerk told them the hotel was full, one demonstrator replied, “What, no rooms for New York Jews and rabbis yet you have rooms for Arab killers?” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-11B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations. General Assembly--Congresses., Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah., Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Arab-Israeli conflict., Palestine question (1948-)
Geographic subjects:
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361913
Title:
Burn effigy of Arafat.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: J-46236 BURN EFFIGY OF ARAFAT NEW YORK -- Members of Betar, an Zionist youth organization, prepare to set fire to an effigy of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasir Arafat outside United Nations headquarters in New York. Animal blood is splattered on the sidewalk as part of the protest. Twenty-eight members of the group were arrested during the demonstration, one of a series in New York in protest to the arrival of the PLO delegation to take part in the U.N. General Assembly’s debate on Palestine. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-11B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations. General Assembly--Congresses., Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah., Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004., Betar.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Arab-Israeli conflict., Executions in effigy--New York (State)--New York., Palestine question (1948-)
Geographic subjects:
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361912
Title:
Kissinger confers with pope.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CJ-46218 KISSINGER CONFERS WITH POPE VATICAN CITY -- U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (right) examines a book of ancient Italian etchings on religious subjects presented to him by Pope Paul VI during a special audience at the Vatican. At center is Henry Cabot Lodge, the Presidential envoy to the Vatican. Mr. Kissinger was in Rome for the opening of the United Nations-sponsored World Food Conference. The Vatican gave no details of the meeting between Mr. Kissinger and the Pope, though it is generally believed that the two men discussed the Middle East situation, and the crisis of food throughout the world. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ROM-11A-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978., Vatican Palace (Vatican City), United Nations--Congresses., World Food Conference (1974 : Rome, Italy), Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023., Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985., Catholic Church--Foreign relations--United States.
Topics:
Popes., Congresses and conventions--Italy--Rome., Food supply--Congresses., Economic policy--Congresses., Cabinet officers--United States., Ambassadors--United States., Arab-Israeli conflict.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City., United States--Foreign relations--Catholic Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361909
Title:
Regaining the past.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-46227 REGAINING THE PAST NEW YORK -- Simas Kudirka (center, dark jacket) inspects the book that records his mother’s baptism at St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Brooklyn. Father Anthony Petrauskas, pastor of the church, shows the 1906 baptismal record book to, from second left, Mr. Kudirka’s son Evaldas, his daughter Lolita, Mr. Kudirka, an unidentified man, and Marija Sulskis, Mr. Kudirka’s mother. Mr. Kudirka, 45, is the Lithuanian seaman who was removed by force from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in 1970 by officers of a Russian vessel from which he had defected off Martha’s Vineyard. Sentenced to 10 years in a Siberian prison camp for treason, his release was pushed up when the baptism records established the U.S. citizenship of his mother. That was sufficient to qualify him for citizenship in this country too. He was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with his family to begin a new life in the U.S. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-11A-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., St. Mary of the Angels Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), Kudrika, Simas., Kudirka, Evaldas., Kudirka, Lolita., Sulskis, Marija., Catholic Church--Clergy., Petrauskas, Anthony.
Topics:
Emigration and immigration., Citizenship--United States., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Church records and registers--New York (State)--New York., Cold War., Defectors--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361900
Title:
"Modern" Christ featured on new magazine.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-46209 ‘MODERN’ CHRIST FEATURED ON NEW MAGAZINE ROME -- The cover of a new Roman Catholic journal launched in Rome shows a long-haired, bearded young man, dressed in a light suit, white shirt and dark tie. A caption reads: “Look Jesus full in the face.” The magazine, called “Jesus” and devoted exclusively to the life and times of Christ, is published by the Society of St. Paul for the Apostolate of Communications (Pauline Fathers). It is a response to results of a recent public opinion survey in Italy of religious beliefs and attitudes. The survey showed that of a long list of famous people, Jesus was “most interesting” to older persons, while Karl Marx, Mao Tse-tung, Mohammed, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Ghandhi scored better with young people. The Pauline Fathers expressed hope that their publication would “penetrate and make real the time and the world of Jesus, in accord with a spirit of critical investigation.” A conservative Catholic organization has, however, filed suit against the magazine, claimed the image of the modern Christ on the cover offends Italy’s state religion. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ROM-11A-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Pious Society of St. Paul--Publishing., Jesus Christ--Pictorial works.
Topics:
Periodicals--Italy--Rome., Church and mass media--Italy--Rome., Church work with young adults--Catholic Church., Church and state--Italy., Church and state--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects:
Rome (Italy)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361897
Title:
Schools fire-bombed in book dispute.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-46133 SCHOOLS FIRE-BOMBED IN BOOK DISPUTE CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Students arriving at Kanawha County's Midway Elementary School are greeted by a burned-out door after it and another elementary school were fire-bombed as violence escalated in the controversy over the use of supplemental English textbooks in public schools in the county. Both bombs exploded in the schools before any children had arrived. Pupils were taken to neighboring schools for classes. Demonstrations against the books began with the start of the school year in September. Protesters have charged that the materials are anti-Christian and anti-American. Statements from protesters indicated that they have adopted an intransigent attitude and will not wait for a review committee, appointed by the county board of education, to officially determine the future of the books. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-CHA-10B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Midway Elementary School (Kanawha County, W. Va.)
Topics:
Patriotism in textbooks., School boards--West Virginia--Kanawha County., Textbooks., Challenged books--West Virginia--Charleston., Conservatism--Religious aspects., Schools--Fires and fire prevention--West Virginia--Charleston., Bombing, Aerial--West Virginia--Charleston.
Geographic subjects:
Charleston (W. Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361542
Title:
Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46129 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS OSLO -- The 1974 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Irish diplomat Sean MacBride (left), the United Nations' Commissioner for South-West Africa, and former Premier Eisaku Sato of Japan. Mr. Sato, 73, who was Japan's Premier from 1964 to 1972, was honored for his efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. Mr. MacBride, 70, was cited for work on behalf of human rights. The foreign minister of the Irish Republic from 1948 to 1951, he is currently supervising U.N. efforts to arrange the independence of South-West Africa (Namibia) from the Republic of South Africa. The two men will share the approximately $124,000 which accompanies the 1974 Peace Prize, awarded by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A/R-NY-10B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., MacBride, Seán., United Nations., Satō, Eisaku, 1901-1975., Norske Nobelkomite.
Topics:
Nobel Prize winners--Norway--Oslo., Human rights workers--Norway--Oslo.
Geographic subjects:
Oslo (Norway), Namibia--Foreign relations--South Africa.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361541
Title:
Police disperse anti-busing crowd.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46110 POLICE DISPERSE ANTI-BUSING CROWD BOSTON -- Helmeted police move in to break up a crowd of about 600 persons forming a human chain across a South Boston street to block busloads of black children on their way home from school. There were at least seven arrests and several injuries, including that of a black man caught by a mob of angry whites, in the worst outbreak of violence to date connected with court-ordered busing in Boston. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-BOS-10B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Violence against--Massachusetts--Boston., Race riots--Massachusetts--Boston., Race relations--Massachusetts--Boston., Mobs--Massachusetts--Boston., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361537
Title:
Racial violence in Boston.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46109 RACIAL VIOLENCE IN BOSTON BOSTON -- Andre Jean-Louis tries to escape from a group of anti-busing demonstrators during an incident of racial violence as Boston entered its fourth week of court-ordered busing. Mr. Jean-Louis, a black man from the French West Indies, was driving his car through South Boston when he was caught in a traffic jam. A mob of whites surrounded his car and began pounding on the car body and windshield. He jumped out and tried to run but was caught by the mob at the front porch of a house. Before police could rescue him, Mr. Jean-Louis suffered head injuries. He was later treated at a hospital and released. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-BOS-10B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jean-Louis, Andre.
Topics:
Black people--Violence against--Massachusetts--Boston., Race riots--Massachusetts--Boston., Race relations--Massachusetts--Boston., Mobs--Massachusetts--Boston., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361536
Title:
Smooth integration.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46062 SMOOTH INTEGRATION BOSTON -- While demonstrations and violence marred the start of busing at some of Boston’s public schools, at least one group of boys took integration in stride. Black and white students at the Jennie Barron School in Boston’s Roslindale section playfully roughhouse during a recess period. The school runs from kindergarten through 5th grade. The black children are being bused to the school from the Mattapan section. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-BOS-9D-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston., School children--Transportation--Massachusetts--Boston., Race relations--Massachusetts--Boston., African American school children--Massachusetts--Boston., School children--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.), Roslindale (Boston, Mass.), Mattapan (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361518
Title:
Halting an 'invasion'
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: J-46132 HALTING AN 'INVASION' JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops carry a squatter from a site between Jerusalem and Jericho, as some 3,000 "ultra-Orthodox" Israeli Jews and "members of Israel's right-wing groups" launched an "invasion" into the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Jordan with the intention of "settling" there, according to Radio Israel. A spokesman for the "settlers" said the effort was launched "by design" to precede the arrival in Israel of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-JER-10B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Demonstrations--Jerusalem., Protest camps--Jerusalem., Police--Jerusalem., Arab-Israeli conflict.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., West Bank., Jericho.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361510
Title:
Dancing in the streets.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: J-46131 DANCING IN THE STREETS MOSCOW -- Soviet Jews sing and dance outside Moscow's main synagogue as they celebrate the traditional festival of Simhat Torah. There was an unusual degree of gaiety and freedom from police harassment during the festival. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-MOS-10B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Jews--Russia--Moscow., Simḥat Torah., Fasts and feasts--Judaism., Singing--Russia--Moscow., Dance--Russia--Moscow., Singing--Religious aspects--Judaism., Dance--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361509
Title:
White House welcome.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46009 WHITE HOUSE WELCOME WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Ford welcomed Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel to the White House with a strong public pledge that the United States remained “committed to Israel’s survival and security.” At the start of four days of talks about the Middle East and Israeli-American relations, Mr. Rabin, a former ambassador to Washington who was making his first visit to the U.S. as Premier, received full honors -- a 19-gun salute, a military honor guard and several thousand invited guests waving American and Israeli flags on the south lawn of the White House. Here, from left, Mrs. Rabin, Mr. Ford, Mr. Rabin and Mrs. Ford stand on a White House balcony during welcoming ceremonies. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-9B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., Ford, Betty, 1918-2011., Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-1995., Rabin, Lea., White House (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Prime ministers--Israel., Presidents' spouses--United States., Prime ministers' spouses--Israel., Visits of state--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Israel., Israel--Foreign relations--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361287
Title:
Hurricane hits Honduras.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46051 HURRICANE HITS HONDURAS SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- Hurricane Fifi slammed into the coast of Honduras, leaving a path of death and destruction in her wake. The storm, and the rains it brought, left an estimated 5,000 dead, 60,000 homeless and property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The hurricane swept along Honduras’ Caribbean coast, causing wind and flood damage in a number of the country’s largest cities. At top, firemen in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second largest city, rescue people during the height of the hurricane. Below, flood waters inundate banana crops and workers’ houses near Choloma, a town that was virtually destroyed when a wall of water and mud swept through it, killing almost half of its 6,000 people. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B/A-HON-9D-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Hurricanes--Honduras., Hurricane damage--Honduras--Choloma., Floods--Honduras--Choloma.
Geographic subjects:
Choloma (Cortés, Honduras)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361281
Title:
Glad to be back.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46049 GLAD TO BE BACK APPLETON, Minn. -- Robert Cousins, one of 120 Belfast children who spent six weeks this Summer in the Upper Midwest away from the strife of Northern Ireland, is back on the farm of Eldon and Mary Voorhees in Appleton, Minn. Rob’s mother, Frances Cousins, fearing for the safety of her 12-year-old son, wrote to the Voorhees asking if they’d have him back. He’ll be in Minnesota a year, and “then we’ll figure things out from there,” Mrs. Voorhees said. “If the situation is still the same over there and his mother agrees, then he’ll stay. If she wants him back, then he’ll go.” To Rob, the return to Minnesota means “getting to drive the tractor and feeding the cows and sheep. It’s so good here. There’s no shooting here, no bombs and I’m not scared.” The boy is hoping his mother will come to visit him in Minnesota, but her finances are limited. The Voorhees, who have no children, paid for his trip back to the farm. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-MIN-9D-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Cousins, Robert., Voorhees, Eldon., Voorhees, Mary.
Topics:
Children--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Children--Minnesota--Appleton., Foster children--Minnesota--Appleton., Foster parents--Minnesota--Appleton.
Geographic subjects:
Appleton (Minn.), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361278
Title:
Tears amid ruins.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46027 TEARS AMID RUINS BIEN HOA, S. Vietnam -- A weeping Vietnamese woman sits amid the ruins of her home near Bien Hoa. The village was occupied by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese for several days, during which most of the homes were destroyed. The villagers fled when the town was first occupied and returned after reoccupation by South Vietnamese government troops. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-SAI-9C-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam., Vietnam (Democratic Republic). Quân đội., Vietnam. Quân đội nhân dân.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam--Biên Hòa., Buildings--War damage--Vietnam--Biên Hòa., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees.
Geographic subjects:
Biên Hòa (Vietnam), Vietnam--History--1945-1975., Vietnam (Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361269
Title:
Some children stayed home.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46019 SOME CHILDREN STAYED HOME BOSTON -- A school bus carrying only two white students leaves a pickup point and heads toward South Boston High School on the first day of a controversial court-ordered busing program to integrate Boston’s public schools. Some violence and a largely successful boycott marked the first day of school in the South Boston neighborhood, although other sections of the city remained calm. Attendance throughout the school system was reported to be 35 per cent below normal. Under the integration plan, the black Roxbury section and the white South Boston sections were combined into one school district. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-BOS-9B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., South Boston High School., South Boston High School--Students.
Topics:
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., School integration--Massive resistance movement--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights movements--United States., High school students--Transportation., School attendance--Massachusetts--Boston., Boycotts--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361266
Title:
Guinea-Bissau granted independence.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46007 GUINEA-BISSAU GRANTED INDEPENDENCE LISBON -- President Antonio de Spinola of Portugal (right) hands a document recognizing the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau to Maj. Pedro Pires, a leader of the African Party for the Independence of Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, during a ceremony in Lisbon. At center is Portuguese Premier Vasco dos Santo Goncalves. The signing of the document ended five centuries of colonial rule in the small West African territory which had been known as Portuguese Guinea. The ceremony formally began the dissolution of Portugal’s African empire, to which she has clung through 10 years of colonial wars. Gen. Spinola, who came to power in April, has announced plans for granting independence as well to Angola and Mozambique. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-LIS-9B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Spínola, António de., Pires, Pedro Verona Rodrigues, 1934-, Gonçalves, Vasco., Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde.
Topics:
Presidents--Portugal., Prime ministers--Portugal., Politicians--Portugal--Lisbon., Autonomy and independence movements., Decolonization--Guinea-Bissau.
Geographic subjects:
Lisbon (Portugal), Guinea-Bissau--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361264
Title:
Protest pardoning of Nixon.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46005 PROTEST PARDONING OF NIXON PITTSBURGH -- A crowd outside a Pittsburgh hotel where President Ford was addressing a transportation conference holds signs protesting his decision to grant a pardon to former President Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while Chief Executive. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-PIT-9B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Pardon.
Topics:
Watergate Affair, 1972-1974., Demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Pardon.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361263
Title:
Textbook protestors.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46004 TEXTBOOK PROTESTORS CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Protest signs and American flags were the order of the day as 200 persons marched on the Kanawha County Board of Education offices in Charleston to demonstrate against the use of certain textbooks in the county’s schools. The protest began shortly after the start of the school year when parents kept their children from classes to protest English texts they consider a threat to patriotism, religion and morality. The parents contend some articles in the books contain passages detrimental to their religious and moral beliefs, and introduce their children to drugs and unpatriotic beliefs. The protestors set up picket lines at the county’s coal mines, railroads and manufacturing plants, keeping many workers off the job. This led a federal judge to order marshals into the area to prevent violence and enable the workers to return to their jobs. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-CHA-9B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Demonstrations--West Virginia--Charleston., Patriotism in textbooks., School boards--West Virginia--Kanawha County., Textbooks., Challenged books--West Virginia--Charleston., Conservatism--Religious aspects., Picketing--West Virginia--Charleston.
Geographic subjects:
Charleston (W. Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361262

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