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Through a Lens: 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

July 29, 2024

CIVIL RIGHTS SUPPORTERS EXPRESS VICTORY HOPES WASHINGTON, D.C. [Pearl ID: islandora:348444]

July 2, 2024 was the 60th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The culmination of decades of Black activism and public pressure, in defiance of political resistance and racist violence, the 1964 bill was the most impactful legislation for human and civil rights in the United States since Reconstruction.

The Religious News Service was not...

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Megan

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Civil Rights, Religious News Service

Through a Lens: Nuns' Dress Reform

March 19, 2024

In 2023, PHS was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 22,500 photographs and supporting documents from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection. Learn more about the project.

The Religious News Service Photograph Collection includes images that were shot between 1945 and 1982. To kick off the RNS Photographs Digitization Project, we prioritized appraising and scanning images from 1964...