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Text transcribed from caption: PC-30963 PRESIDENT URGES RELIGIOUS CIVIL
RIGHTS SUPPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- America’s religious community was
challenged by President Johnson to “reawaken the conscience” of the
nation and make the civil rights bill -- which he predicted would pass -- an
effective force in the struggle for equal justice. A total of 177 Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen heard the President in the East Room of
the White House on the day following a mass interreligious convocation at
Georgetown University to demand passage of the civil rights bill. Seated
under painting to the President’s right, from right to left, are top
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish spokesmen: Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the
Synagogue Council of America; Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church and a vice chairman of the National Council of
Churches’ race commission; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, NCC race commission
chairman and chief administrative officer of the United Presbyterian Church
in the U.S.A.; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington, and Rabbi Lewis
A. Weintraub, president of the Washington Board of Rabbis. Credit Must Read:
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-DC-5A-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., White House (Washington, D.C.), O'Boyle, Patrick, 1896-1987., Miller, Uri, 1906-1972., Smith, Benjamin Julian, 1899-1977., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Weintraub, Lewis A., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Interdenominational cooperation--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348439