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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"Old North" anniversary is ecumenical.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45099 'OLD NORTH' ANNIVERSARY IS ECUMENICAL BOSTON -- Leaders of Boston's Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, along with public officials, joined in a unique "Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving" commemorating the 250th anniversary of Boston's historic Christ church, popularly known as "Old North." Participants included (left to right) retired Episcopal Bishop Frederic C. Lawrence, Roman Catholic Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, Bishop John W. Burgess of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the Rev. Robert W. Golledge, Vicar of Old North, and Presiding Bishop John E. Hines of the Episcopal Church. The theme of the service was Old North's "Years of Freedom, Years of God," and it launched the church's observance of the national bicentennial. It was in Christ Church's slender steeple that Paul Revere sighted the lanterns that warned of the approach of British redcoats on April 18, 1775. During the service, Cardinal Medeiros read a cable from Cardinal Jan Willebrands, head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, expressing Pope Paul's best wishes and blessings to those present, as well as his thanks to the cardinal for participating in the ecumenical service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CB-BOS-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
The Pilot Photos (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Second Church (Boston, Mass.), Lawrence, Frederic Cunningham., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Medeiros, Humberto Sousa, 1915-1983., Burgess, John, 1909-2003., Golledge, Robert W., Hines, John E. (John Elbridge), 1910-1997., Revere, Paul, 1735-1818., Willebrands, Johannes., Catholic Church. Secretariatus ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam., Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.
Topics:
Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church., Interfaith worship--Massachusetts--Boston., American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362527
Title:
Report on interfaith mission to Israel.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45073 REPORT ON INTERFAITH MISSION TO ISRAEL BOSTON -- Three religious leaders representing the Christian and Jewish faiths report on their 10-day study mission to Israel at a Boston news conference. Dr. Gene E. Bartlett, Father Robert W. Bullock and Rabbi Murray I. Rothman (left to right) participated in the first greater Boston ecumenical mission sponsored by three local groups -- the Interfaith Committee of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Catholic-Jewish Committee of the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Commission. Dr. Bartlett, pastor of the First Baptist church in Newton, Mass., is president of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Father Bullock serves as director of Campus Ministry of the Archdiocese of Boston and is Catholic chaplain at Brandeis University. Rabbi Rothman chairs the Jewish Community Council's Interfaith Committee and is spiritual leader of Temple Shalom in Newton. During their intensive tour, the participants lived on a kibbutz, met with Jewish and Arab officials and private citizens, and worshipped together at Christian and Jewish holy places. The group was comprised of ten Protestant, nine Catholic and four Jewish leaders. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CB-BOS-1A-74-DS)
Creator:
House of Photography, Inc. (Boston, Mass.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bartlett, Gene E., Bullock, Robert W., Rothman, Murry I., National Conference of Christians and Jews., First Baptist Church (Newton, Mass), American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Catholic Church--Clergy., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Brandeis University--Faculty., Temple Shalom of Newton (Newton, Mass.)
Topics:
Jewish-Arab relations., Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Press conferences--Massachusetts--Boston., Interfaith worship--Israel.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362520
Title:
"Old North" anniversary is ecumenical.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher), Buckley. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Second Church (Boston, Mass.), Lawrence, Frederic Cunningham., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Medeiros, Humberto Sousa, 1915-1983., Burgess, John, 1909-2003., Golledge, Robert W., Hines, John E. (John Elbridge), 1910-1997., Revere, Paul, 1735-1818., Willebrands, Johannes., Catholic Church. Secretariatus ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam., Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.
Topics:
Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church., Interfaith worship--Massachusetts--Boston., American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362460
Title:
Racial fights close to school.
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46608 Text transcribed from caption: PC-46408 [sic] RACIAL FIGHTS CLOSE TO SCHOOL BOSTON -- Police remove students from Boston’s Hyde Park High School after an outbreak of racial fights. Fifteen students were arrested after a hallway scuffle between black and white students. The school was then ordered closed for the day. Sporadic violence has erupted at Hyde Park since school opened in September under the controversial court-ordered busing plan. The school was closed in the Fall but an uneasy truce had existed between white and black students since before Christmas. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AA-BOS-1C-75-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hyde Park High School (Boston, Mass.), Boston (Mass.). Police Department.
Topics:
School integration--United States., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights movements--United States., Police--Massachusetts--Boston., School violence--Massachusetts--Boston., Youth and violence--Massachusetts--Boston., Arrest--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362253
Title:
Violence flares again in Boston.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46539 VIOLENCE FLARES AGAIN IN BOSTON BOSTON -- Riot equipped Boston police wrestle a demonstrator to the ground outside South Boston High School after racial violence flared again at the school when a white youth was allegedly stabbed in the stomach by a black teenager. Two schools were closed as a result of the violence at court-ordered desegregated Boston schools. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS-12B-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., South Boston High School., Boston (Mass.). Police Department.
Topics:
School integration--United States., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights movements--United States., Police brutality--Massachusetts--Boston., Police--Massachusetts--Boston., Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston., School violence--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362234
Title:
Charged in death of fetus.
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Text transcribed from caption: C-46607 CHARGED IN DEATH OF FETUS BOSTON -- Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin (right), a Boston City Hospital physician charged with manslaughter in the death of an aborted fetus, looks on as his attorney, William Homans, talks with reporters outside Suffolk Superior Court in Boston where his trial is taking place. Dr. Edelin is charged with manslaughter for allegedly assaulting and killing a fetus 24 to 28 weeks old. The case could produce a potential landmark decision on the viability of a fetus and when it becomes entitled to legal protection, a key issue left unresolved in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision. The Supreme Court ruled that state governments can forbit only abortions “subsequent to viability.” However, it would only state “viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks), but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS-1B-75-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Edelin, Kenneth, 1939-2013., Edelin, Kenneth, 1939-2013--Trials, litigation, etc., Homans, William P., Massachusetts. Superior Court (Suffolk County)
Topics:
Physicians--Massachusetts--Boston., Lawyers--Massachusetts--Boston., Abortion--United States., Abortion--Law and legislation--United States., Trials (Abortion)--Massachusetts--Boston., Trials (Manslaughter)--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362208
Title:
Charged in death of fetus.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Edelin, Kenneth, 1939-2013., Edelin, Kenneth, 1939-2013--Trials, litigation, etc., Homans, William P., Massachusetts. Superior Court (Suffolk County)
Topics:
Physicians--Massachusetts--Boston., Lawyers--Massachusetts--Boston., Abortion--United States., Abortion--Law and legislation--United States., Trials (Abortion)--Massachusetts--Boston., Trials (Manslaughter)--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362179
Title:
Students removed from school.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hyde Park High School (Boston, Mass.), Boston (Mass.). Police Department.
Topics:
School integration--United States., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights movements--United States., Police--Massachusetts--Boston., School violence--Massachusetts--Boston., Youth and violence--Massachusetts--Boston., Arrest--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362153
Title:
Violence flares again in Boston.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., South Boston High School., Boston (Mass.). Police Department.
Topics:
School integration--United States., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights movements--United States., Police brutality--Massachusetts--Boston., Police--Massachusetts--Boston., Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston., School violence--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362115
Title:
Addresses pro-busing demonstration.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46293 ADDRESSES PRO-BUSING DEMONSTRATION BOSTON -- Mrs. Coretta Scott King addresses pro-busing demonstrators at Boston’s City Hall. Mrs. King told the gathering of 5,000 that Boston’s racial problems are “an isolated throwback to what we had hoped was a forgotten era of infamy and hatred.” Listening is Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), who also addressed the group. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-BOS-12A-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., Drinan, Robert F., Catholic Church--Clergy., Boston City Hall (Boston, Mass.)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Massachusetts--Boston., Clergy--Massachusetts--Boston., Legislators--Massachusetts., School integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361952
Title:
Addresses pro-busing demonstration.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., Drinan, Robert F., Catholic Church--Clergy., Boston City Hall (Boston, Mass.)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--Massachusetts--Boston., Clergy--Massachusetts--Boston., Legislators--Massachusetts., School integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston., Civil rights demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361822
Title:
Two views of busing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46174 TWO VIEWS OF BUSING BOSTON -- Students at Boston’s Hyde Park High School (top photo) look through a shattered window of their school bus, damaged when fights broke out between black and white students at the school. Several students were injured in the incident, just part of the violence which has marred Boston’s court-ordered busing plan since the start of the school year. A more peaceful view of busing is achieved by four Boston students as they discuss school desegregation efforts with a Charlotte, N.C., student coordinating council (bottom photo). The four students (foreground left to right), Barbara Steer, Dana Gonsal, Bob Messina and Linda Lawrence, are members of the Hyde Park High School biracial committee who were invited to the Southern City by students to get a look at integration and how it works in Charlotte’s public high schools, where a massive busing program has been in effect for 10 years. “We’re still working at it every day, and we don’t have any miracle answers," a Charlotte student told the Boston group. “But what was a new situation for us 10 years ago is a new situation for you now. And we want you to know we’ve learned a lot about judging anybody, black or white, as an individual. It just took time." Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS/NC-10D-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Steer, Barbara., Gonsal, Dana., Messina, Bob., Lawrence, Linda.
Topics:
Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston., School children--Transportation--Massachusetts--Boston., Race relations--Massachusetts--Boston., African American students--Massachusetts--Boston., Students--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.), Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361549
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:
Ecumenical walk to mountain top.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46070 ECUMENICAL WALK TO MOUNTAIN TOP PRINCETON, Mass. -- An ecumenical walk to the summit of 2,006-foot Mount Wachusett near Princeton in Central Massachusetts brought together Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christians. Participating the mountain-top services of thanksgiving, emphasizing the spirit of the 1975 Holy Year themes of renewal and reconciliation, were, from left: Father Wayne F. Benton of Prince of Peace Roman Catholic church, Princeton; Father John J. Bagley, chairman of the Worcester Catholic Diocese coordinating committee for the Holy Year; Roman Catholic Bernard J. Flanagan of the Worcester, Mass., diocese; and the Rev. William B. Clark, executive director of the Worcester County Ecumenical Council. More than 500 persons climbed a ski trail to take part in the service and listened to Scriptural readings and hymn singing at stops along the way. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO By Edward Gully (EG-WOR-9D-74-DS)
Creator:
Gully, Edward F. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Benton, Wayne F., Prince of Peace Roman Catholic Church (Princeton, Mass.), Bagley, John J., Catholic Church--Clergy., Flanagan, Bernard Joseph, 1908-, Clark, William B., Worcester County Ecumenical Society., Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement., Interdenominational cooperation., Walking--Religious aspects--Christianity., Hiking--Massachusetts--Princeton., Devotional exercises., Hymns--Devotional use.
Geographic subjects:
Princeton (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361524
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:
Anti-busing crowd broken up.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Associated Press. (author)
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:361463
Title:
Antibusing group beat man.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Associated Press. (author)
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:361461
Title:
Ecumenical walk to a 'Sermon on the Mount.'
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Gully, Edward F. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Benton, Wayne F., Prince of Peace Roman Catholic Church (Princeton, Mass.), Bagley, John J., Catholic Church--Clergy., Flanagan, Bernard Joseph, 1908-, Clark, William B., Worcester County Ecumenical Society., Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement., Interdenominational cooperation., Walking--Religious aspects--Christianity., Hiking--Massachusetts--Princeton., Devotional exercises., Hymns--Devotional use.
Geographic subjects:
Princeton (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361415
Title:
Two views of busing.
Description:
Alternate captions.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Steer, Barbara., Gonsal, Dana., Messina, Bob., Lawrence, Linda.
Topics:
Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston., School children--Transportation--Massachusetts--Boston., Race relations--Massachusetts--Boston., African American students--Massachusetts--Boston., Students--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.), Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361401

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