Mother Emanuel Nine: Their Influence Was Wide

                    Mother

Emanuel African Methodist

Episcopal Church Nine

Senior pastor state senator

Name meaning “merciful”

Church eldress, oldest to be shot

Great grandnephew tries to shield her

        First and youngest shot

College administrator and pastor

        Doctor her last name not a title

Sunday school teacher

Track coach and pastor

Librarian

Church sexton

Seventy-four-year-old pastor

Two played dead

All women except two men

Shot while praying

And being black (and trusting).

Say their names:

Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, forty-five

Susie Jackson, eighty-seven

Myra Thompson, fifty-nine

Daniel Simmons, seventy-four

Ethel Lance, seventy

Cynthia Hurd, fifty-four

DePayne Middleton Doctor, forty-nine

Clementa Pinckney, forty-one

Tywanza Sanders, twenty-six

In one of the oldest black churches (older than the Confederate flag)

Denmark Vesey cofounder

Two hundred and three years old

Mother Emanuel

African

Methodist

Episcopal

Church

Nine

Remember Birmingham Sunday?

This horror unfolded on a Wednesday.

                        Mother Emmanuel

                                African

                        Methodist

                                Episcopal

                        Church

                                Nine

Say their names