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Subgroup 1, Records of Rock Spring Congregational Church/Arlington Council on Human Relations , is subdivided into three series: Administrative, Report and Miscellaneous.  Series 1, Administrative Records , is further subdivided into eight subseries according to type of material. Each subseries is arranged chronologically.\n","Subgroup 2, Visual Records , is divided into sixteen series according to subject. Images listed within each subject are organized numerically according to a previously assigned image number, which can be found in LIST 1. [**See note below] The format of the image is also indicated: G* denotes glass plate negatives; F* stands for film negatives; L* signifies lantern slides. Boxes holding Subgroup 2 come after boxes holding the paper materials in Subgroups 1 and 3. 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Subgroup 1, Records of Rock Spring Congregational Church/Arlington Council on Human Relations , is subdivided into three series: Administrative, Report and Miscellaneous.  Series 1, Administrative Records , is further subdivided into eight subseries according to type of material. Each subseries is arranged chronologically.\n","Subgroup 2, Visual Records , is divided into sixteen series according to subject. Images listed within each subject are organized numerically according to a previously assigned image number, which can be found in LIST 1. [**See note below] The format of the image is also indicated: G* denotes glass plate negatives; F* stands for film negatives; L* signifies lantern slides. Boxes holding Subgroup 2 come after boxes holding the paper materials in Subgroups 1 and 3. Because of this placement, the lists of images in this finding aid follow the file listings for the boxes of paper documents.\n","**Please note that the visual materials in Subgroup 2 are housed in five boxes, but physically arranged according to image number, regardless of subject area. For box location, a second list is provided as a cross-reference for the user. LIST 2 is organized numerically by image number across the five boxes.\n","The newsletters for the Rock Spring Congregational Church ( Subgroup 3 ) are chronologically ordered. The materials are contained in twenty-one files, with each file containing about eight months to eleven months' worth of newsletters. There is one file which contains miscellaneous material including such items as envelopes for collecting donations and information for Church services such as bible readings and musical selections.  \n","The Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ is a diverse religious community. It was founded in 1912 by a group of residents living in the Vanderwerken area of Arlington who wanted to form a congregational church. It is a church, according to its website, \"united in Christian covenant to see the will of God as revealed in scripture, in tradition, and in Jesus Christ,\" and where every member has a say and all decisions are reached by consensus.\n","This inclusive and egalitarian organization became involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in its association with the Arlington Council on Human Relations. Consisting of a broad spectrum of people and which included many members of Rock Spring Congregational, the Arlington Council on Human Relations was formed in 1958 in order to improve the economic, civic, and racial conditions in Arlington County. 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