Mississippi Bishop Oliver Gerow is pictured in this 1960 photo with members of Pax Christi in Greenwood, Miss. Bishop Gerow, head of the Diocese of Jackson, Miss., from 1924 to 1967, steered Catholics in the state through some of the darkest days of the civil rights movement. He released a statement urging lawmakers to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson July 2 of that year. (CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Jackson Archives)