A church youth group prays in front of the Emanuel AME Church on the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting on July 17, 2015, in Charleston. Visitors from around the nation visited a makeshift shrine in front of the church, in a show of faith and solidarity with “Mother Emanuel”, as the church is known in Charleston. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
After a massacre in Charleston 10 years ago that devastated South Carolinians, faith leaders and elected officials immediately sought to ease public tensions and begin the healing process.
There were no riots, no cries of vengeance, no shouts of Civil War…