We Are Charleston, Herb Frazier
We Are Charleston, Herb Frazier
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We Are Charleston
Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel

Author: Herb Frazier, Dr. Bernard Edward Powers Jr., Marjory Wentworth

Narrator: Barry Scott

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 06/14/2016


Synopsis

We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider denominational movement.On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. The captured shooter, twenty-one-year-old Dylan Roof, a white supremacist, was charged with their murders. Two days after the shooting, while Roof’s court hearing was held on video conference, some of the families of his nine victims, one by one, appeared on the screen—forgiving the killer. The “Emanuel Nine” set a profound example for their families, their city, their nation, and indeed the world.In many ways, this church’s story is America’s story—the oldest A.M.E. church in the Deep South fighting for freedom and civil rights but also fighting for grace and understanding. Fighting to transcend bigotry, fraud, hatred, racism, poverty, and misery. The shootings in June 2015, opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates Southern institutions and remains part of American society.  We Are Charleston tells the story of a people, continually beaten down, who seem to continually triumph over the worst of adversity. Exploring the storied history of the A.M.E. Church may be a way of explaining the price and power of forgiveness, a way of revealing God’s mercy in the midst of tremendous pain. We Are Charleston may help us discover what can be right in a world that so often has gone wrong.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on April 28, 2021

Powerful. Heartbreaking. A book everyone should read.......more

Goodreads review by Vicky on October 21, 2023

Hate Crimes and Other Forms of Terrorism "Racist attitudes rooted in the dark past have sometimes been preserved in the present." We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel is a non-fiction book that tells the story of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, commonly known as Mo......more

Goodreads review by Joan on January 14, 2017

A good accounting of this awful tragedy. Great history research. Proud to be A.M.E.!......more

Goodreads review by marcia on August 03, 2017

writing about the event including background not the bomber. I enjoyed the history lesson about Charleston much of which I did not know. the book weaves from one topic to the other with smooth transition. great writing did not loose interest.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on July 30, 2016

This is an incredibly important book, but it is a very difficult book to read because of the devastating event it depicts. The book discusses the day of the Mother Emanuel shooting, before delving into the City of Charleston’s past. The chapter that describes each of the nine victims is especially h......more