3 September

Born in 1921 — Ruth Orkin, American photographer and filmmaker.

Above: Jewish refugees, Lydda Airport, 1951

Also, born in 1894 – American theologian, minister, and ethicist H. Richard Niebuhr.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Previously on September 3, Paul Kane and Sarah Orne Jewett.