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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Chicago march leaders.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-34662 CHICAGO MARCH LEADERS CHICAGO -- Leaders of the civil rights marches protesting housing discrimination in Chicago discuss future strategy with their followers. Albert Raby, heading the effort, announces that plans to march in suburban Cicero have been postponed. With him are other Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials -- the Rev. James Bevel (left) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-8C-66-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Raby, Al, 1933-1988., Jackson, Jesse, 1941-, Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago., Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Clergy--Illinois--Chicago., African American clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358347
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Catholic council honors Protestant civil rights leader.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30501 CATHOLIC COUNCIL HONORS PROTESTANT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER CHICAGO -- An awards dinner of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, where Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., was honored for civil rights leadership, was described as "one of the most important examples of the ecumenical movement on the local level." Auxiliary Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (right) presents the first John F. Kennedy Award to Dr. Blake. Other participants in the dinner included the Rev. Ulysses B. Blakeley, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chicago, who said grace, and Rabbi Irving J. Rosenbaum of the Chicago Loop Synagogue, who delivered the benediction. Dr. Blake, a leader of the National Council of Churches' anti-discrimination effort and a personal participant in integration demonstrations, called on American religious groups to recognize their responsibility to lead the first fight against racial injustice. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-C-ID-64-NBM)
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Hillinger, Raymond P., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Chicago (Ill.), Catholic Inter-Racial Council (Chicago, Ill.)--Congresses., Catholic Church--Relations--Presbyterian Church., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Conrad Hilton Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation., Civil rights workers--United States., Award presentations--Illinois--Chicago., Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353836
Title:
Bible College president named to lead evangelicals.
Creator:
National Association of Evangelicals. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018., National Association of Evangelicals., Gerig, Jared F., 1907-, Missionary Church Association--Clergy., Southern Baptist Conference--Clergy.
Topics:
Evangelists--Illinois--Chicago., Evangelicalism--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Illinois--Chicago., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348664
Title:
Photos-Religious News Service.
Creator:
National Association of Evangelicals. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018., National Association of Evangelicals., Gerig, Jared F., 1907-, Missionary Church Association--Clergy., Southern Baptist Conference--Clergy.
Topics:
Evangelists--Illinois--Chicago., Evangelicalism--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Illinois--Chicago., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348497
Title:
National evangelical group meets.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30856 NATIONAL EVANGELICAL GROUP MEETS CHICAGO -- Evangelist Billy Graham (left) addresses some 1,800 delegates at the National Association of Evangelicals’ annual meeting in Chicago. The noted Southern Baptist minister called on evangelical leaders to assume greater responsibility in solving the nation’s racial crisis. Behind him as he spoke was a banner with the meeting’s general theme, “Evangelicals Unashamed,” and a bi-racial choir. Right photo shows Dr. Jared F. Gerig of Fort Wayne, Ind., elected president of the NAE, which represents more than 40 conservative denominations with some 2,000,000 members. Dr. Gerig is president of Fort Wayne Bible College and a former head of his denomination, the Missionary Church Association. As NAE president, he succeeds Dr. Robert A. Cook, head of the King’s College, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (NAE-4C-64-NAB)
Creator:
National Association of Evangelicals. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018., National Association of Evangelicals., Gerig, Jared F., 1907-, Missionary Church Association--Clergy., Southern Baptist Conference--Clergy.
Topics:
Evangelists--Illinois--Chicago., Evangelicalism--United States., Interdenominational cooperation--Illinois--Chicago., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348331
Title:
Dr. Spike addresses United Church.
Description:
View of the crowd as Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, addresses the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ.
Creator:
United Church of Christ. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United Church of Christ. General Synod., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Topics:
Councils and synods--Illinois--Chicago., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--United Church of Christ., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--United Church of Christ.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151564

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