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Relatives fury as black church plans to keep over half the donations. In 1822, one of the church s founders, denmark ves ey. Emanuel african methodist episcopal church wikipedia. Dylann roof, a white supremacist, killed nine people including the senior pastor and south carolina state senator clementa c. This time, though, they saw an emanuel ame administrator blocking the.
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