Elson Lecture featuring Kevin Sack in conversation with Robert Franklin
Author of Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Venue:
Atlanta History Center
130 W Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
Event Description:
Few people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston-Mother Emanuel-before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church's charismatic pastor and eight worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted the first AME church in the South in order to agitate racial strife, he did not anticipate the aftermath-an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims' families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement.
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