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:
Protestant youth work for interracial amity.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #S-4617 PROTESTANT YOUTH WORK FOR INTERRACIAL AMITY NEW YORK -- The Christian Youth Council, sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York, is carrying on a program to unite local church youth work throughout the city with special emphasis on interracial cooperation. Here members of the group are preparing promotional literature for mailing to Protestant church youth. LEFT TO RIGHT are Isabelle Wetzelberger, Charles Farrow, Yolanda Lacker, John S. Wood, Jeanne White, Mrs. Leona Evans, director, Alberta Doskocil, Albina Doskocil, Carl Flemister and Peggy Eismann. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JEC-NY-MES-10B-6-W)
Creator:
Hansen, A. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Council of Churches of the City of New York., Wetzelberger, Isabelle., Farrow, Charles., Lacker, Yolanda., Wood, John S., White, Jeanne., Evans, Leona., Doskocil, Alberta., Doskocil, Albina., Flemister, Carl., Eismann, Peggy.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Youth in church work--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360334
Title:
Protestant youth work for interracial amity.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Hansen, A. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Council of Churches of the City of New York., Wetzelberger, Isabelle., Farrow, Charles., Lacker, Yolanda., Wood, John S., White, Jeanne., Evans, Leona., Doskocil, Alberta., Doskocil, Albina., Flemister, Carl., Eismann, Peggy.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Youth in church work--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360233
Title:
Arrested at A&P offices.
Description:
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
Title:
Clergy's protest against Diem regime.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-29734 CLERGY’S PROTEST AGAINST DIEM REGIME NEW YORK -- Fifteen thousand U.S. clergymen, citing what they described as religious persecution of Buddhists in South Vietnam, have protested continuance of U.S. aid to the government headed by President Ngo Dinh Diem. Here, some of the letters from clergymen are displayed by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, minister emeritus of Riverside church in New York City, and Dr. Donald S. Harrington, minister of the Community church of New York and secretary of the Ministers Vietnam Committee. A letter, registering the clergymen’s protest, was sent to President Kennedy. “We decry,” it said, “the loss of American lives and billions of dollars to a regime universally regarded as unjust, undemocratic and unstable…the religious persecution of Buddhists by the ruling Roman Catholic Ngo family has shocked the world.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-NY-8C-63-W)
Creator:
Ministers' Vietnam Committee (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ministers' Vietnam Committee (New York, N.Y.), Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969., Harrington, Donald Szantho.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic), Freedom of religion--Vietnam (Republic), Letters--New York (State)--New York., Complaint letters--United States., Clergy--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358084
Title:
First New York conference on religion and race.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30652 FIRST NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND RACE NEW YORK -- More than 2,000 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen took part in the first Metropolitan New York Conference on Religion and Race, an all-day session which ended with an interreligious call for an end to prejudice in areas of civil rights, education, housing, employment, health and welfare and the inner life of church and synagogue. Honorary chairmen of the Conference included, from left to right: Dr. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Episcopal clergyman and president of the Protestant Council of the City of New York; Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, and Rabbi Max Schenk, president of the New York Board of Rabbis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BB-NY-2E-64-NBM)
Creator:
Unger, Henry F. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hotel Americana (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan New York Conference on Religion and Race (1964 : New York, N.Y.), Kinsolving, Arthur Lee., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Spellman, Francis, 1889-1967., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New York (N.Y.), Catholic Church--Bishops., Schenk, Max., New York Board of Rabbis.
Topics:
Conferences and conventions--New York (State)--New York., Interdenominational cooperation., Church and social problems--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353857
Title:
New York rights groups stage school boycott.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30553 NEW YORK RIGHTS GROUPS STAGE SCHOOL BOYCOTT NEW YORK -- The Rev. Milton A. Galamison, center, Presbyterian pastor from Brooklyn, headed a drive which resulted in a massive boycott of public schools in New York City on Feb. 3. The Negro civil rights leader is shown here at a press conference with representatives of the National Association for Puerto Rican Civil Rights -- Gilberto G. Valentina and Irma V. Santaella. The boycott planners declared that a School Board plan for integration was inadequate and that the demonstration would be held. Several hundred "freedom schools" were established, mainly in churches, for the many thousand youngsters staying away from their regular classes for the day. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-2B-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Galamison, Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988., Valentina, Gilberto G., Santaella, Irma V., National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (U.S.), New York (N.Y.). Board of Education.
Topics:
Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., School integration--New York (State)--New York., African American clergy--New York (State)--New York., African American Presbyterians--New York (State)--New York., Women civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York., African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353846
Title:
"Freedom Schools" held for boycotting students.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30567 "FREEDOM SCHOOLS" HELD FOR BOYCOTTING STUDENTS NEW YORK -- Several hundred "Freedom Schools," most of them located in Protestant churches, were established throughout New York City during the boycott held in protest to racial imbalance in the public schools. Here, at Grace Congregational church in Harlem, the Freedom School class was composed of Negro and Puerto Rican students; many white students also took part in the boycott and most Freedom School classes were well integrated. Instruction was concentrated on the meaning of the civil rights effort, but also included other subjects and recreation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-2B-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Grace Congregational Church (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Boycotts--New York (State)--New York., Racial justice in education--New York (State)--New York., Student movements--New York (State)--New York., Students--New York (State)--New York., African American students--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353800
Title:
"Freedom Schools" held for boycotting students.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
United States. Department of the Army. Public Information Division. Press Section. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Grace Congregational Church (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Boycotts--New York (State)--New York., Racial justice in education--New York (State)--New York., Student movements--New York (State)--New York., Students--New York (State)--New York., African American students--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353508
Title:
School boycott to go on.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Galamison, Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988., Valentina, Gilberto G., Santaella, Irma V., National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (U.S.), New York (N.Y.). Board of Education.
Topics:
Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., School integration--New York (State)--New York., African American clergy--New York (State)--New York., African American Presbyterians--New York (State)--New York., Women civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York., African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353415
Title:
Dr. King, other Negro leaders, ask broad curtailment of demonstrations.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (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:349415
Title:
Negro leaders confer on demonstrations.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
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:349375
Title:
Negro leaders confer on demonstrations.
Description:
Newspaper clipping from The New York Times covering the same event, featuring a slightly different version of photo file image.
Creator:
New York Times Company. (author), Brower, Arthur. (author)
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:349311
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
Title:
A minister ends his fast.
Description:
Clipping from New York Post.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hewett, Clayton Kennedy., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Hewett, Anna Grace Carlson., Hewett, Therese-Marie., Hewett, Darryl Jeanne.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Chester., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Segregation in education--Pennsylvania--Chester., Spouses of clergy--Pennsylvania--Chester., Children of clergy--Pennsylvania--Chester., Hunger strikes--Pennsylvania--Chester.
Geographic subjects:
Chester (Pa.), New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348543

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