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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31371 FREEDOM RIDERS START JAIL TERMS IN
FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Eight white and Negro clergymen arrested in 1961
in a sit-in integration attempt at a Tallahassee, Fla., airport restaurant
went to jail there after three years of unsuccessful appeals. They chose
60-day sentences rather than paying $500 fines after Federal Court turned
down a new appeal. Their case earlier went up to the U.S. Supreme Court but
that tribunal refused to hear it. Denial of the appeal generally was on
technical grounds. The clergymen, from left to right, are: the Rev. John W.
Collier, pastor of Israel Memorial African Methodist Episcopal church,
Newark, N.J.; the Rev. A. McRaven Warner, executive secretary of the
Manhattan Division of the Protestant Council of the City of New York; Rabbi
Martin Freedman of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Paterson, N.J.; the Rev. Arthur L.
Hardge of Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, Providence,
R.I.; Rabbi Israel Dressner of Temple Sharey Shalom, Springfield, N.J.; the
Rev. Robert J. Stone of New York, assistant executive director of the
Commission on Religion and Race of the United Presbyterian Church in the
U.S.A.; Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor at Stanford University, Palo Alto,
Cal., and nationally known United Presbyterian theologian who was a delegate
observer at the second session of the Vatican Council; and the Rev. Petty D.
McKinney of St. Phillip's AME Zion church, Nyack, N.Y. Credit Must Read:
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-8B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Collier, John W., Israel Memorial AME Church (Newark, N.J.), Protestant Council of the City of New York., Warner, A. McRaven., Freedman, Martin., Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun (Paterson, New Jersey), Hardge, Arthur L., Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal (Providence, R.I.), Dresner, Israel S., Stone, Robert John, 1919-, Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-2001., McKinney, Petty D., Temple Sha’arey Shalom (Springfield, Union County, N.J.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., St. Phillip's AME Zion Church (Nyack, N.Y.), Stanford University--Faculty., United States. Supreme Court.
Topics:
Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Tallahassee., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Arrest--Florida--Tallahassee.
Geographic subjects:
Tallahassee (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349190