Arson Suspected After Six Black Churches Burn In the South

By the Web Editors
Jun 30, 2015
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In two weeks after Dylann Roof shot nine people at Emanuel A.M.E Church in Charleston, S.C., six church buildings in the south housing predominately black congregations were burned. The Southern Poverty Law Center suggested the string of nighttime fires “may not be a coincidence.”

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