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Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Officers, Executive Committee, and Members

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List of members and the organizations they represented in the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Dr. R.E. Blackwell was the Virginia Chairman of this group. The parent organization, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), was…

Tags: Adele Clark, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Katherine H. Hawes, League of Women Voters, NACWC, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Ora Brown Stokes, race, race relations, religion, Richmond, Virginia

Church Women Explore Interracial Paths, Federal Council Bulletin, September-October, 1926

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Pages 7-8 (front and back) removed fromFederal Council Bulletin, September-October, 1926. The article, "Church Women Explore Interracial Paths," details an interracial conference held on September 21-22, 1926 at Eagles Mere, Pa.The conference was…

Tags: Federal Council of Churches, Interracial Conference of Church Women, news, race, race relations, religion, YWCA

Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926

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Group portrait of attendees at the Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926. The conference was held by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in…

Tags: Adele Clark, Federal Council of Churches, George Edmund Haynes, Interracial Conference of Church Women, Mary Anderson, Pennsylvania, photograph, race, race relations, religion, Sara W. Brown, YWCA

Virginia (white) Denominational Conference on Race Relations, October 28, 1930. Program and Resolution on "The Birth of a Nation."

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Alternate name: Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations. A meeting of white religious leaders convened to discuss how churches might take a leadership role in race relations. See all documents related to this event.

Tags: Birth of a Nation, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, film, housing, John Garland Pollard, public health, race, religion, Richmond, Robert Russa Moton, Virginia, Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations

Interracial News Service, vol. 11, no. 1. January 1940

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A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It…

Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 5. October, 1939

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Tags: Booker T Washington, colonialism, education, Federal Council of Churches, George Washington Carver, Interracial News Service, Jane Bolin, John Wesley Underhill, New Jersey, New York, news, religion, segregation, Voting, war, World War II

Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 6, December, 1939

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Tags: African Americans, education, employment, Federal Council of Churches, Interracial News Service, Jim Crow, London, Minnesota, Native Americans, news, religion, segregation, separate but equal, World War II

Interracial News Service, vol. 9, no. 4, June 1938

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A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY.The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It…

Tags: African Americans, Chinese, Ethiopia, Federal Council of Churches, Interracial News Service, Japanese, labor, news, race, railroads, religion, segregation, unemployment

Letter from Rev. John Kirstein to Aubrey Brown, Jr. , August 22, 1963

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Letter to Aubrey Brown, Jr., editor of The Presbyterian Outlook, from Rev. John A. Kirstein, associate editor of the Presbyterian Survey, in opposition to the PCUS statement to the National Council of Churches.

Tags: civil rights, March on Washington, protest, race, religion

Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) press release, August 22, 1963

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Press release from the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (commonly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church) in Atlanta, GA, dated 22 Aug 1963. It announces the official resistance of the PCUS to participation in the March…

Tags: civil rights, March on Washington, Presbyterian Church in the United States, protest, race, religion

Young boy, Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA

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Photograph of young African American boy in winter coat and cap standing outside the Seventeenth Street Mission in Richmond, VA. What appears to be snow is visible on the ground.Note on back: "2/23/14 17th St Mission Richmond Va."Round stamp on…

Tags: African Americans, education, photograph, postcards, religion, Richmond, settlement houses, Seventeenth Street Mission, Virginia

Volunteer staff, Seventeenth Street Mission, 1915

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Postcard photo of the volunteer staff from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, the General Assembly's Training School, and probably others. Reverse of postcard contains message to W. G. Somerville from M. M. Grey."3/22/15Glad to hear from you and…

Tags: African Americans, education, photograph, postcards, religion, Richmond, settlement houses, Seventeenth Street Mission

Students from Seventeenth Street Mission with Murray Grey, the Rev. John Little, Webster Rhoads, Owsley Sanders

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Students from Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VACaption on front:"Taken 4/11/15 X John Little from Louisville" Card addressed to W. G. Somerville and postmarked April 16, 1915 Note on back identifies 1) Murray Grey - Superintendent…

Tags: African Americans, education, photograph, postcards, race, religion, Richmond, settlement houses, Seventeenth Street Mission

Embroidery Class, Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA

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Photograph of girls and young women from an embroidery class taught at the Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA.Caption on card: "An embroidery class taught by wife of a Pres[byterian] minister. All have recited C.Cat[echism] 145 q[uestions].…

Tags: African Americans, education, photograph, postcards, religion, Richmond, settlement houses, Seventeenth Street Mission, Virginia

View of Front of Hall, Seventeenth Street Mission

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Photograph showing Scripture and hymn charts, organ, four sewing machines. A "screen for pictures" (projected images) is visible behind the center chart.Text on reverse: "View of front of hall toward street. We usuall[y] have stereoptican views,…

Tags: education, photograph, postcards, religion, Richmond, settlement houses, Seventeenth Street Mission

Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA

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Photograph of students, teachers and staff at the Seventeenth Street Mission. In 1911, students from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Later, Union Presbyterian Seminary) started an urban ministry outreach program in the most impoverished…

Tags: African Americans, education, photograph, postcards, religion, Richmond, settlement houses, Seventeenth Street Mission

Neighborhood House Confirmation Program, 1932

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Confirmation Services program from the Council Religious Schools, Richmond Section Council of Jewish Women; Sir Moses Montefiore Congregation.

Tags: Council of Jewish Women, education, immigration, Neighborhood House, religion, settlement houses

Neighborhood House Sabbath School Class, 1921

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Photograph of children ages 8 - 9 in the Neighborhood House Sabbath School, Richmond, VA. Taken in 1921.In the early 1900’s, non-resident settlement houses were created throughout the country to assist with immigrant adjustment to America. In 1912,…

Tags: children, education, immigration, National Council of Jewish Women, Neighborhood House, photograph, religion, Richmond, Sabbath School, settlement houses

Certificate of Confirmation for Beulah Bratman

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Neighborhood House Certificate of Confirmation "This is to Ceritfy that Beulah Bratman was duly confirmed on the 27 day of May 5688, 1928 in the presence of Congregation Council of Jewish Women at Richmond, VA by the undersigned Kate T. Goldman,…

Tags: education, immigration, National Council of Jewish Women, Neighborhood House, religion, Richmond, settlement houses

Seven Lectures on Female Education, Inscribed to Mrs. Garnett's Pupils, at Elm-Wood, Essex County, Virginia

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Seven lectures on the education of young women, primarily concerned with character formation. Garnett indicates that the following topics will be covered:The moral and religious obligations to a right improvement of time. The best means of…

Tags: education, religion, women's history

The Dark and Dangerous Side of Woman Suffrage [Anti-suffrage publication]

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A large format publication which gathers quotations from feminists and supporters of suffrage. These quotations manifest the "dark and dangerous side of woman suffrage" which is argued to be a desire for social revolution.Subject headings for…

Tags: anti-suffrage, Catholic, religion, suffrage, Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party, women's history

Catholic Opinions [suffrage handbill]

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NWSA handbill featuring quotations from prominent Catholic clergy. "His Eminence Jame Cardinal Gibbons: 'The Church has taken no official attitude on the subject, but leaves the matter to the good judgment of her children as to what they think best.…

Tags: Catholic, National Woman Suffrage Association, New York, religion, suffrage, women's history

Anti Suffrage Bill. By Woman, was Eden lost, and man cursed [anti-suffrage handbill]

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An emotional appeal from H. P. Petersen against "Woman Suffrage, that Godforsaken Evil." By Woman, was Eden lost, and man cursed.If you trust her, give up all hope of heaven. She cannot love, because she is too selfish. She may have a fancy, but that…

Tags: anti-suffrage, Bible, hypothes.is, natural law, natural order, religion, suffrage, women's history

Religious and Social Aspect of the Suffrage Movement

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Essay, published in pamphlet form, which sets forth the religious and social foundations of the woman suffrage movement. The essay begins:"There is in the suffrage movement a religious element, a deep strain of spirituality and altruism, which gives…

Tags: Equal Suffrage League, religion, suffrage, women's history

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