The Georgia NAACP said Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston will survive “this midnight” in the wake of a mass shooting that left nine people dead, including the pastor, in the South Carolina coastal city Wednesday.
In a statement Thursday, the group called Emmanuel “a venerated house of worship founded during dark, difficult days in this Nation’s founding. It endured despite slavery, Jim Crow and it will survive this midnight as well.”
Separately, Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., called for prayer and leadership.
“Officials at all levels, mayor, police, governor, National Guard, congress, president need to pray and enforce peace and justice,” King said in a statement from Staten Island, N.Y.
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