Reconciliation service honors Crawford lynching victims in Abbeville
In Abbeville South Carolina hundreds gathered at Friendship Worship Center for a reconciliation service to atone for racial strife and the lynching of Anthony Crawford in 1916. White church leaders apologized to Black residents and forgiveness was offered for mob violence and burned churches. The ceremony echoed the U S Senate apology and honored Crawford’s family as memories of the past mob violence linger.
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Anthony Crawford
Philadelphia
Friendship
South Carolina
Tony Foster
Wendell Rhodes
Foste
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Crawford
U.S. Senate
Friendship Worship Center
Ravenel to attend bridge dedication after illness
Former congressman Arthur Ravenel Jr., ill with Guillain Barré syndrome, plans to attend the Ravenel Bridge dedication in Mount Pleasant as fireworks precede Saturday ceremonies. He expects to speak briefly and recalls the bridge’s twin towers linking Charleston and Mount Pleasant over the Cooper River.
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Mount Pleasant
Arthur Ravenel Jr
Ravenel
Charleston
Cooper River
North America
Churches unite with DJJ to aid troubled teens in SC
North Charleston churches and the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice team up to open after school and summer centers offering mentoring tutoring and recreation. The program seeks to curb repeat offenses as about 27 000 juveniles were referred to DJJ last year and 50 church officials announced the effort at the Christian Leadership Congress.
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South Carolina
African Methodist Episcopal Churches
State Department of Juvenile Justice
Preston Warren Williams II
Williams
Department of Juvenile Justice
William R. Byars Jr
Christian Leadership Congress
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