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:
Their hands are their eyes.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-32082 THEIR HANDS ARE THEIR EYES CHICAGO -- Hands of blind school pupils cover the head of a sculpture so the children can feel a work of art they cannot see. With their teacher, the students toured a private gallery in Chicago. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-1D-65-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Chicago Public Schools--Students.
Topics:
School children--Illinois--Chicago., Art--Study and teaching--Illinois--Chicago., Blind children--Education--Illinois--Chicago., Sculpture--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355937
Title:
Paul Carlson Memorial Tower.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-32123 PAUL CARLSON MEMORIAL TOWER CHICAGO -- Mrs. Paul Carlson, widow of the medical missionary slain in the Congo, holds a model of a memorial tower to be raised in his honor at the new Science-Learning Center of North Park College in Chicago. Dr. Carlson was a 1949 graduate of the college’s two-year program and served in the Congo for the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, which owns and operates the college. North Park President Karl A. Olsson, announcing the memorial, said that “students who attend classes in the Carlson Tower will be reminded of the Christian Gospel for which Paul E. Carlson lived and died and which has moved other missionaries to give themselves to the world in selfless devotion.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (NP-CI-2B-65-NBM)
Creator:
Varde Studio (Chicago, Ill.) (photographer), North Park College and Theological Seminary. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson Lindbloom, Lois., North Park College and Theological Seminary., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964--Death and burial., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi.
Topics:
Missionaries' spouses--Illinois--Chicago., Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Martyrologies., Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Colleges and universities--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Nord-Ubangi (Congo)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355908
Title:
Chicago college announces Carlson Memorial Tower.
Creator:
North Park College and Theological Seminary. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson Lindbloom, Lois., North Park College and Theological Seminary., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964--Death and burial., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Olsson, Karl A.
Topics:
Missionaries' spouses--Illinois--Chicago., Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Martyrologies., Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Colleges and universities--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Nord-Ubangi (Congo)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355766
Title:
Paul Carlson Memorial Tower.
Creator:
North Park College and Theological Seminary. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson Lindbloom, Lois., North Park College and Theological Seminary., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964--Death and burial., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi.
Topics:
Missionaries' spouses--Illinois--Chicago., Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Martyrologies., Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Nord-Ubangi., Colleges and universities--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Nord-Ubangi (Congo)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355753
Title:
They have a feeling for art.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Chicago Public Schools--Students.
Topics:
School children--Illinois--Chicago., Art--Study and teaching--Illinois--Chicago., Blind children--Education--Illinois--Chicago., Sculpture--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355727
Title:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ.
Description:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech on the church's role in the Civil Rights Movement on July 6, 1965, at the Fifth General Synod of the United Church of Christ held in Chicago, Illinois, July 1-7, 1965. This speech marked the first time King used the phrase "we shall overcome."
Subject names:
United Church of Christ. General Synod., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects.--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:143453

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