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:
Witnesses at hearing on prayers.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Robertson, David A., Creighton, William Forman., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Neuman, Albert., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
Topics:
Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.), Freedom of religion--United States., School administrators--Pennsylvania--New Cumberland., School administrators--New Jersey--Hawthorne.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348623
Title:
Bishop Sheen backs school prayer.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John), 1895-1979., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary., Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Legislators--United States., Governors--Alabama., Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348553
Title:
2 bishops support pupil prayer ban.
Description:
Clipping from the May 7, 1964 issue of the New York Times.
Creator:
New York times. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Robertson, David A., Creighton, William Forman., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Neuman, Albert., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
Topics:
Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.), Freedom of religion--United States., School administrators--Pennsylvania--New Cumberland., School administrators--New Jersey--Hawthorne.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348535
Title:
"Miles of petitions" asking school prayers being received by congressmen.
Description:
Narrative description by the photographer, Seth H. Muse. Describes another unidentified photograph.
Creator:
Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., The Committee to Protect the Right to Prayer (Cincinnati, Ohio), Schafrer, G.W., Wyman, Louis C. (Louis Crosby), 1917-, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.), Petitions--Ohio--Cincinnati., Freedom of religion--United States., Legislators--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348519
Title:
Long petition for school prayer.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30944 LONG PETITION FOR SCHOOL PRAYER WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A 200-foot petition containing 16,000 signatures in support of the move to amend the U.S. Constitution and return prayer and Bible reading to public schools is unrolled on the Capitol steps by Rep. Louis C. Wyman (R.-N.H.), a sponsor of one of the many “prayer amendment” resolutions before the House Judiciary Committee. G. W. Schafrer, chairman of the Cincinnati, O., “Committee to Protect the Right of Prayer,” which obtained the signatures, looks on as a group of touring high school students holds the elongated petition. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-4E-64-NBM)
Creator:
Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., The Committee to Protect the Right to Prayer (Cincinnati, Ohio), Schafrer, G.W., Wyman, Louis C. (Louis Crosby), 1917-, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.), Petitions--Ohio--Cincinnati., Freedom of religion--United States., Legislators--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348434
Title:
Churchmen discuss proposed prayer amendment.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31030 CHURCHMEN DISCUSS PROPOSED PRAYER AMENDMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Members of the House Judiciary Committee called on numerous leading American churchmen to express their views on proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution to allow voluntary prayer and Bible-reading in the public schools. Among witnesses were Dr. Daniel Poling, left, editor of Christian Herald magazine, who said he favors such an amendment, and Dr. Martin E. Marty, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor and associate professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, who opposed the proposals. They discuss the subject here with Prof. Paul Freund of Harvard University, who also opposed the amendment. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-DC-5D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Poling, Daniel A. (Daniel Alfred), 1884-1968., Marty, Martin E., 1928-, University of Chicago. Divinity School--Faculty., Christian Herald (Firm), Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--Clergy., Freund, Paul A. (Paul Abraham), 1908-1992., Harvard Law School--Faculty., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
Topics:
Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--United States., Freedom of religion--United States., Editors--Washington (D.C.), College teachers--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348431
Title:
Prayer hearing witnesses wait to testify.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30994 PRAYER HEARING WITNESSES WAIT TO TESTIFY WASHINGTON, D.C. -- School officials from two communities that initially defied the U.S. Supreme Court ban against classroom devotional practices flank Protestant Episcopal Bishop William F. Creighton of Washington, D.C., who supported the Court’s action. All were waiting to testify at House Judiciary Committee hearings on some 147 proposals for a Constitutional amendment to return prayer and Bible reading to public schools. At left is David A. Robertson, supervising principal of New Cumberland, Pa., schools, where devotional practices were continued until the school district was threatened with an injunction. Albert Neuman, at right, is commissioner of the board of education at Hawthorne, N.J., where the State Superior Court ordered an end to classroom devotions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Robertson, David A., Creighton, William Forman., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Neuman, Albert., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
Topics:
Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.), Freedom of religion--United States., School administrators--Pennsylvania--New Cumberland., School administrators--New Jersey--Hawthorne.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348430
Title:
Prelate, governor back school prayer.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30964 PRELATE, GOVERNOR BACK SCHOOL PRAYER WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Roman Catholic bishop and the controversial governor of a Southern state attacked U.S. Supreme Court decisions barring prayer and Bible-reading in public schools in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York, left, and Alabama’s Gov. George C. Wallace, right, are shown with Rep. Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.), committee chairman. Mr. Celler opposes devotional acts in public schools. His committee is conducting hearings on legislation which proposes a Constitutional amendment that would permit prayer and Bible-reading. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-5A-64-W)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998., Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John), 1895-1979., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary., Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981., Catholic Church--Bishops.
Topics:
Legislators--United States., Governors--Alabama., Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348429
Title:
Impeachment proceedings.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45845 IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Three Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee engage in discussion during the Committee's consideration of second article of impeachment. On the article charging abuse of power, the Com- mittee voted 28-10 to recommend that the House bring impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Conferring are, left to right, Father Robert F. Drinan of Massachusetts, Jesuit priest who formerly headed Boston College's law school, Rep. George E. Danielson of California and Rep. John F. Seiberlin of Ohio. Along with all other Democrats on the Committee and seven Republican members, they voted to recommend impeachment on the article under consideration. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-7E-74-T)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Impeachment., United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary., Drinan, Robert F., Danielson, George E., Seiberlin, John F.
Topics:
Impeachments--Washington (D.C.), Legislators--United States, Legislative bodies--Committees--Washington (D.C.)
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344114

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