Church shooting

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• 6-14-16
  

  Reflecting on the Charleston Syllabus One Year Later

  by Chad Williams, Kidada Williams and Keisha N. Blain

  How 3 educators tried to put the Charleston massacre into historical perspective online.

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• SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
  7-6-15
  

  Charleston Shooting Exposes America’s Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past

  by R. Joseph Parrott

  To win friends during the Cold War Rhodesia and South Africa, playing up its anti-communism, courted the white south.

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• 7-3-15
  

  The Persistence of Myth in Southern Politics and Life

  by Ron Briley

  The notion that the Civil War and Reconstruction were foisted upon a defenseless South by a tyrannical central government retains considerable influence in a Southern ideology of persecution.

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• 6-16-15
  

  Dylann Roof Was No Lone Madman

  by Randall Law

  He was a terrorist and he has plenty of company.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  6-24-15
  

  Eric Foner says the face of racism now isn’t a slaveowner (interview)

  In an interview with Salon he puts Charleston in perspective.

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• 6-24-15
  

  The Long Campaign by White Supremacists to “Take Our Country Back”

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  The Civil War ended one hundred and fifty years ago this month. Instead of taking our country back, isn’t it time to take it forward?

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed
  6-23-15
  

  Chad Williams Crowdsources a Syllabus on the Charleston Shootings

  What prompted him? Public conversations about the shooting were generally devoid of the kind of historical knowledge that frames contemporary racial violence and its deep roots. Twitter's helping.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6-23-15 (accessed)
  

  Terrorism in Charleston

  by Jelani Cobb

  Beneath this philological fracas lay a truth evident to political speechwriters, eulogists, and news anchors: in times of tragedy, language matters.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-22-15
  

  The Charleston shooting shows the growing globalization of white nationalism

  by Morris Dees and J. Richard Cohen

  Americans tend to view attacks like the mass murder in Charleston as isolated hate crimes, but many are connected to a broader movement, says the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6-21-15
  

  Was the Co-Founder of Charleston's Emanuel Church a Victim of Racist Paranoia, Too?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Some have speculated that Roof chose the historic black church—and even the date of his horrific deed—because it was co-founded by Denmark Vesey, a former slave who was hanged for planning to lead a slave revolt in Charleston on June 16, 1822.

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• SOURCE: UNC Press Blog
  6-19-15
  

  Faith in Charleston

  by Steve Estes

  The complex history of religion in Charleston serves as both a cautionary tale and a reason for hope.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6-18-15
  

  The Deadly History of “They’re Raping Our Women”

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Racists have long used rape to defend their worst racist violence.

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• 6-19-15
  

  The Long and Proud History of Charleston’s AME Church

  by Manisha Sinha

  On the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Juneteenth or June 19, the day many of the enslaved celebrated as the day of emancipation, one might ask, Pray, who is the terrorist here?

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  6-18-15
  

  Church shooting may be most deadly hate crime in South Carolina history

  While South Carolina has suffered a long history of racially motivated arson attacks at black churches, some as recently as the late 1990s, the state’s last mass slaying of this scale occurred 139 years ago during the Reconstruction Era.