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The Charleston church shooting was a mass shooting in which Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, murdered nine African Americans during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on the evening of June 17, 2015. Three other victims survived. The morning after the attack, police arrested Roof in Shelby, North Carolina. Roof confessed to committing the shooting in the hope of igniting a race war. The shooting targeted one of the United States' oldest black churches, which has long been a site for community organization around civil rights. Roof was found competent to stand trial in ...
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  • 3. One Of A Kind Charleston
    The religious history of the United States began with European settlers. Not counting some temporary settlements that left no permanent impact, the earliest influences arrived with the English Pilgrim settlers who arrived in Massachusetts in 1620. Their Protestant faith motivated their movement as a community where they could practice in peace. The great majority of the settlers came from Protestant backgrounds in Britain and the Continent, with a small proportion of Catholics and a few Jews in port cities. The English and the German Americans brought along their distinctive Protestant denominations. Several colonies had an established church, which meant that local tax money went to support local parishes. Freedom of religion became a basic American principle, and numerous new movements e...
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  • 5. Pink House Gallery Charleston
    Pink House is a historic house and art gallery at 17 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that is one of the oldest buildings in South Carolina and is the second oldest residence in Charleston after the Colonel William Rhett House. The house was built between 1694 and 1712 of pinkish Bermuda stone by John Breton in the city's French Quarter. The date of the building has been the subject of dispute. Two local historians fixed the date as 1712, but a construction date as late as 1745 has been suggested. Pink is today thought of as the traditional colour for Bermudian homes , which have been built almost exclusively from the soft white native limestone since the 17th Century due to stormy weather and the need to conserve Bermuda cedar forests for shipbuilding . The norm before the Tw...
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  • 6. Tamarack Beckley
    Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia: is a tourist destination located at Exit 45 above the Beckley service area of the West Virginia Turnpike. It features a red peaked roof and landscaped grounds that draw over 500,000 visitors annually. This large arts and crafts facility is run as an economic development project of the West Virginia Parkways Authority and sells West Virginia craft products, such as wood, glass, textiles, pottery, metal, jewelry, as well as specialty food items, fine art, and West Virginia books and recordings. There are five resident artisan studios and most weekends from Spring through Fall there are also craft demonstrations.
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