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List of attacks against African-American churches
Wikipedia (Last edited 3/13/23)

Online Articles

7 black churches burned in 10 days
By Diana Chandler - Baptist Press (7/1/15)
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)
National Park Service
Arson fire destroyed a Black L.A. church. ‘We shall rise from the ashes’ — but how?
By Thomas Curwen - The Los Angeles Times (3/5/23)
Bomb threats against Black institutions are deeply rooted in U.S. history
By The Associated Press - NPR (2/7/22)
Church burnings after Charleston: part of a 'long, dark' history that never stopped
By Max Blau - The Guardian (7/2/15)
Half of all church fires in past 20 years were arsons
By Alexsandra Sandstrom - Pew Research Center (10/26/15)
Thugs and Terrorists Have Attacked Black Churches for Generations
By Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic (6/18/15)
‘The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,’ by Henry Louis Gates Jr.: An Excerpt
The New York Times (2/16/21)

Journal Articles

Black Church Arson in the United States, 1989-1996
By Sarah A. Soule and Nella Van Dyke - Ethnic and Racial Studies 22:4 (July 1999)
A Felt Need: Elmer Beard and the Enduring Legacy of Roanoke Baptist Church
By Jajuan S. Johnson - Southern Cultures 28:2 (Summer 2022)
Racial sedimentation and the common sense of racialized violence: The case of black church burnings
By Matthew Houdek - Quarterly Journal of Speech (6/14/18)