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RNS Digitization Project Update

October 10, 2024

We are back again to share some more updates from the Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project.

During the third quarter of 2024, PHS was thrilled to welcome Lauren Pash to the team as our new RNS Project Archivist. Working alongside Megan, the two of them were busy appraising, rehousing, scanning, and describing historical RNS...

Author:

Allison

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Religious News Service, From the Archives, Digitization

Religious News Service Exhibit Report

October 8, 2024

In early 2024, the Presbyterian Historical Society was awarded a $94,750 grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to develop a traveling exhibit prototype of photographs from its Religious News Service Collection. The exhibit, Faith & Justice in the 1960s: Religious News Service Covers Civil Rights, provides a window into news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement from 1961 to 1965, illuminating some lesser-known stories of people of faith who fought for justice, transforming the United States.

The first venue for the exhibit prototype was the Religion News Service’s 90th...

Author:

Natalie

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Religious News Service, Presbyterian Heritage

PHS Will Display Photo Exhibition at the Religion News Service 90th Anniversary Gala

August 27, 2024

William Hogan of St. Martin's Catholic church, Chicago, is carried off by police in a civil rights demonstration protesting racial imbalance in the city's public schools. [Pearl ID: 151362]

The Presbyterian Historical Society will display an exhibit featuring Religious News Service photographs during the Religion News Service's 90th Anniversary Symposium and Gala in September.

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Author:

Kristen

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Religious News Service, News and Events

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...

Author:

Megan

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Civil Rights, Religious News Service

Religious News Service Project Update

July 12, 2024

1,050 University of Wisconsin undergraduates assembled in the First Congregational church here attending a twice-weekly lecture on political science. The rapid influx of college students this fall, most of them veterans taking advantage of the federal education benefits, has crowded the usual college classrooms, 1946. [Pearl ID: islandora:360547.]

The Presbyterian Historical Society is excited to share some digitization highlights as part of the Religious News...

Author:

Allison

Tags:

Religious News Service, Digitization, News and Events