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  2. List of African-American historic places in South Carolina

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    Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (NR) Old Bethel United Methodist Church (HM/NR) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (CP) Old Bethel United Methodist Church (NR) Old Marine Hospital/Jenkins Orphanage (NR) Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (CP) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Old Slave Mart (NR) The Parsonage/Miss Izard's ...

  3. List of attacks against African-American churches - Wikipedia

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    1995 January 31 Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Hardeman County, Tennessee, was burned. 1995 June 21 Outside of Manning, South Carolina, four men affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan worked together to burn down Macedonia Baptist Church and Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church of Greeleyville, both majority black churches. Criminal ...

  4. Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia

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    On Memorial Day, May 25, 1964, Schwerner and Chaney spoke to the congregation at Mount Zion Methodist Church in Longdale, Mississippi about setting up a Freedom School. [10] Schwerner implored the congregation to register to vote, saying, “you have been slaves too long, we can help you help yourselves”. [ 10 ]

  5. Edgar Ray Killen - Wikipedia

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    Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.

  6. White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia

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    In his first attempt to kill Schwerner, Bowers assembled 30 White Knights on the evening of Memorial Day 1964 and surrounded the Mount Zion United Methodist Church while a meeting was taking place inside it. Bowers thought that Schwerner would be in attendance, but after he failed to find him when the meeting let out, the Knights started ...

  7. Mount Zion United Methodist Church (Washington, D.C.)

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    Mount Zion United Methodist Church is a historic black church located at 1334 29th Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It was built in 1876 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

  8. James Chaney - Wikipedia

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    James attended Catholic school for the first nine grades, and was a member of St Joseph Catholic Church in Meridian, Mississippi. [ 3 ] At the age of 15 as a high school student, he and some of his classmates began wearing paper badges reading " NAACP ", to mark their support for the national civil rights organization, the National Association ...

  9. Mount Zion Methodist Church - Wikipedia

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    Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church (Eaton, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana Old Zion Methodist Church (Park City, Kentucky), listed on the NRHP in Kentucky Mount Zion Methodist Church (Neshoba County, Mississippi), a Black church which as burned down, leading to the Mississippi Burning murders