Washington, DC, United States
November 30, 1979
Rev. Jack Woodard telling reporters that the church of which he was the Rector, St. Stephen and the Incarnational Episcopal Church, had decided to withdraw its account from Riggs National Bank because of its loans to South Africa, Argentina, and Chile and racist lending practices in Washington, D.C. Christine Root, a member of the D.C. Bank Campaign and staff of the Washington Office on Africa, is seated on the right of the photograph. (Woodard's statement is also on this website.)
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Used by permission of Edgar Lockwood.
