Religious News Service Exhibit Report

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 Anniversary Symposium & Gala, held at the Fordham Lincoln Center in New York City on September 10.

If additional funding is awarded by Lilly Endowment, Inc.’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative in 2025, the prototype exhibit will serve as a template to develop other traveling exhibits that tell the story of religion news reporting in the mid-20th century.

Learn more: www.history.pcusa.org/rns

Read the Presbyterian News Service press release about the exhibit here.