Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education Council on Church and Society Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education Council on Church and Society Records

Inclusive Dates

1948-1968

Call Number

RG 78

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Council on Church and Society

Quantity

12.00 cubic feet

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

The functions of the Council on Church and Society were: to be advisory to the boards, agencies and judicatories of the Church in implementing the actions of the General Assembly in the area of Church and Society; to prepare background materials for the General Assembly's Standing Committee on Church and Society; to assist the Standing Committee on Church and Society in the preparation of policy declarations to be submitted to the General Assembly; to report to the General Assembly annually on the emerging issues in Church and Society, and to review the state of the social involvement of the United Presbyterian Church; and to commission and release studies on related aspects of issues addressed by previous General Assembly policy declarations.

Collection Overview

Record Group 78 includes papers, studies, articles and correspondence from the Council on Church and Society.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

These records have never been properly processed. The following topical groupings of records, intended as an aid to the researcher in locating materials, can be noted throughout the collection:

UPCNA Race Survey Tabulation, 1957 Box 1
Social Progress Box 2-3
Correspondence with Conscientious Objectors Box 3
White House Conferences Box 3
World Council of Churches (WCC) Box 5
Conference on Church and Society Box 5
WCC Conference on Church and Society Box 6-7
Seminars Box 6-8
NY Office of International Affairs Box 8-9
Special Field Project Box 9
WCC Commission on US Participation in Areas of Rapid Social Change Box 9-10
Race Issues Pilot Project Box 10-11

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Corporate Subject

World Council of Churches

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Council on Church and Society.

Topical Subject

Race relations

Conscientious objectors.

Genre-form

Correspondence

Reports

Pamphlets

Papers

Sermons

Corporate Added Name

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Council on Church and Society.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 78
	2	Dramas

		UPCNA RACE SURVEY TABULATION, 1957

1	3	New York Synod
	4	Pittsburgh Synod
	5	Iowa Synod
	6	California Synod
	7	Nebraska Synod
	8	Plains Synod
	9	Second Synod
	10	Columbia Synod
	11	First Synod of the West
	12	Ohio Synod
	13	Illinois Synod
	14-15	Pamphlets - Temperance
	16-17	Pittsburgh - Xenia Leadership School
	18	Temperance Sermons, 1956
	19	Temperance Sermons, 1957
	20-21	Assembly Committee on Temperance Education minutes
	22-23	Religious Liberty

2	1	Vatican
	2	Church and State--Dixon, NM Case Correspondence, Papers
	3	Dixon, NM--Background Papers
	4-7	Church and State
	8-10	White House Conference on Aging, 1961
	11-14	Assassination of President Kennedy, 1963
	15-17	Consultation on the Role of Federal Government, 1966

		SOCIAL PROGRESS

2	18	Social Progress
	19	Comments (Reinhold Niebuhr letter)
	20-21	Comments
3	1-4	Comments

		CORRESPONDENCE WITH CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

3	5	A-G
	6	H-I
	7	M-Z
	8	A-I, 1964-65

		WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCES

3	9-12	Pennsylvania, 1960-1961
	13-14	Child Welfare
	15-16	US Government Loyalty and Investigations--McCarthy
	17	Comments on the Letter to Presbyterians, 1953

4	1-4	US Government Loyalty and Investigations
	5	United Nations: Commission on Status of Women
	6-7	United Nations: Charter
	8	United Nations: Attacks On UNESCO
	9	United Nations: Attacks On
	10	US Government Loyalty Oaths
	11	Pennsylvania Loyalty Oath, "Pechan Bill"
	12-16	US Government Loyalty Security

		WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

5	1-4	World Council of Churches
	5	Cooperation of Men and Women
	6	Amsterdam Meeting, 1948
	7-8	Evanston Assembly, 1954
	9-10	New Delhi Assembly, 1961
	11	Uppsala Assembly, 1968
	12	CCIA
	13	CCIA Reports 1949-1966: (incomplete)
	14	Conferences

		CONFERENCE ON CHURCH AND SOCIETY

5	15	1963
	16	1964
	17	1965
	18	Meeting with Paul Abrecht, 1965
	19	Papers given by participants, 1966
	20	1966

		WCC CONFERENCE ON CHURCH AND SOCIETY

6	1	1965
	2	Barron's article, January 9, 1967
	3	Papers by participants, 1966
	4	UPCUSA Task Force, 1964
	5	UPCUSA Task Force, 1965
	6	UPCUSA Task Force, 1966
	7	Orientation for UP delegates
	8	Task Force, 1967
	9	WCC Development emphasis
	10	Rapid Social Change

		SEMINARS

6	11-13	General and Miscellaneous
	14-15	Information
	16-17	Churchmen's Washington
	18	February 24-27, 1953
	19	1955
	20-21	1956-57
	22	February 4-7, 1958
	23	February 27-March 2, 1962

7	1	International Affairs
	2	May 1-2, 1962
	3	International Affairs
	4	Nature of the Ministry
	5	Rural, February 5-7, 1957
	6	Rural, February 4-7, 1958
	7	Rural, February 3-5, 1959
	8	Rural, 1960
	9	Rural, January 31- February 2, 1961
	10	Rural, February 6-8, 1962
	11	Rural, February 5-7, 1963
	12	Rural
	13	Correspondence, 1955-1956
	14	Seminary, November 28, 1958
	15	Seminary, November 28, 1959
	16	Seminary, November 28, 1960
	17	Staff on UN, Feb 2-3, 1956
	18	UN Staff March 10-11, 1957
	19	Staff March 19-20, 1962
	20-23	Urban Affairs
7	24	October 24-26, 1960
	25	March 6-9, 1961
	26	with AIP, November 25-30, 1961
	27-28	October 14-18, 1962

8	1-2	1963
	3	with AIP, 1963
	4	UN Seminar for Editors of Church magazines for Children, May 3, 1961
	5	World Affairs, 1957
	6	World Affairs, 1958
	7	World Affairs, April 27-30, 1959
	8	World Affairs, February 23-26, 1960
	9	World Affairs, March 21-24, 1960
	10	World Affairs, September 11-13, 1962
	11	Other (NY Office)

		NEW YORK OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

8	12	Plan for International Affairs Office
	13-14	Office correspondence, memos, papers
	15	NY Office of International Affairs
	16	Correspondence, 1962-1963
	17	Reports, 1962-1964
	18	1964-1966
	19	Program Committee
	20	International Economic Assistance Study--NY Office, December 13-14, 1965
	21	Resource material--UN
	22	Committee on Status of Women--Correspondence, Papers, 1967-1968
	23	Papers

9	1	Papers
	2	Race Survey, 1967-1968
	3	Race Survey, 1967
	4	Foreign Aid Survey
	5	Tabulations

		SPECIAL FIELD PROJECT

9	6	Special Field Project
	7	Field activities, 1958-1959
	8	1958-1959
	9	1959-1960
	10	1960-1967
	11	General Correspondence on the project as a whole
9	12	Lebanon, TN, 1961-1962
	13	Arthur J. Yunker
	14	Funds to victims of reprisals
	15	Atlanta Planning Conference, January 1960
	16	Planning Conferences
	17	Tapes; Randall
	18	President's Committee of Equal Employment Opportunity
	19	Disciples of Christ Commission on Rapid Social Change

		WCC COMMISSION ON US PARTICIPATION IN AREAS OF RAPID SOCIAL CHANGE

9	20	Paper: "Rapid Social Change in the USA"
	21	Progress Report, Final Report
	22	Progress Report 1955-1958
	23	1956
	24	1957
	25	1958
	26	1958
	27	1959

10	1	1960
	2	Papers
	3	WCC: Migration Conference papers, June 1961
	4	WCC Division of Studies Central Committee #3, July 1958
	5	Conference--Denmark, 1958
	6	Working papers
	7	Conference--Thessalonika, 1959
	8	Correspondence with Hans Mol re: Churches and Immigrants
	9	Consultation on Immigration Policy, 1961
	10	Consultation on Immigration Policy, 1960-1961
	11-12	U.S. Conference
	13	Resource Papers
	14-16	Papers and Documents
	17	Rapid Social Change
	18	WCC: Papers, News Releases 1956

		RACE ISSUES PILOT PROJECT

10	19	Correspondence, Papers, 1957-58
	20	Project Correspondence, Papers, 1957-58
	21	Lauranburg, NC, 1957
	22	Charlotte, NC, 1957

11	1	Raleigh, NC and Roanoke, VA
	2	Sit-ins
	3	Conferences on Strategy
	4	P.C. Conference on the Southeast
	5	Race Issues
	6	Civil Rights Consultation for Synod Executives, April 1964
	7	De Facto School Segregation Consultation, 1964
	8	Consultation on Racism, 1965
	9	Race Issues
	10	Peace and War and the Church
	11	Peace and War and the Church
	12	Peace and War and the Church
	13	Peace and War and the Church
	14	Northern Cities Strategy Committee
	15-16	Crime--Gambling
	17	Crime--Prisons
	18	Crime--Offenses
	19	Crime--In Ho Oh case, 1958-60
	20	Disarmament
	21	Reconsiderations
	22	Curriculum Servicing, 1966-68
	23	Curriculum

12	1	Opposition to McCarran--Walter Immigration Act
	2	U.S. Committee for Refugees
	3	Immigration
	4	Articles--Albert C. Saunders
	5	Correspondence and articles--Albert C. Saunders Articles--Clifford Earle
	7	Clifford Earle
	8	Africa
	9	Miscellaneous Papers
	10	Agriculture
	11	Articles--Ralph Clark Chandler
	12	Human Rights
	13	Human Relations
	14	Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations newsletter 1954-1965 (incomplete)
	15	Diaconate
	16-17	Housing COOP
	18	Report of Mary Holmes Junior College
	19	Social Security, Aging, Medicare
	20	Labor and the Church
	21	Economics--Depressed Areas
	22	Economics and the Church
	23	Asia, Japan, Korea