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On 17 May 1968, in Minneapolis, after the election of a new moderator, and congratulations from the former, a preacher took the dais of the 180th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ralph Abernathy had been president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for less than six weeks, working in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He visited the Assembly seeking help to fund the Poor People's March. You can hear part of his address in...

In between winter's renewed quaratine and the summer's burgeoning Delta variant, Americans returned to their restaurants, offices, and churches. Our constituents learned from a year of remote work and remote worship exactly how to administrate church work in a new way. And individual and group researchers looked for the pure stuff of remembrance and witness. All this and more shaped our work in the archives in the spring of 2021.