This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Clergy Take Leading Roles in Civil Rights Crusade
Five hundred clergymen have been arrested in the civil rights struggle and three have died. The church emerged as a main operational base, directing marches and protests from Selma to cities across the nation. Leaders credit the shift from words to deeds, citing the 1963 Vatican of action and the Selma march as turning points in mobilizing religious groups for integration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
McComb
Miss
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
Hubert H. Humphrey
Alabama
America
Robert W. Spike
Commission On Religion and Race
The
National Council of Churches
Kansas
Oliver Brown
Topeka
St. John’s A.M.P
Supreme Court
Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
Little Rock
Ark
Central High School
South
New York
Nelson A.rockefeller
Lloyd A. Farerman
New Orleans
Albany
Joseph Cardinal Ritter
St. Louis
Vincent Waters
Raleigh
N.C
Ferce
Oxford
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Reintick Niebuhr
Chicago
United Presbyterian Church
Eugene Carson Blake
Baltimore
Spike
Witi
Washington
Dr.King
James Reed
Boston Unitarian
Viola Liuzzo
Detroit
Methodist
Jackson
St. Augustine
Fla
San Francisco
Chapel
Als