In 1996, members of Macedonia Baptist Church rebuilt their church, located on a peaceful country road about 10 miles outside of Manning, South Carolina. They have not forgotten the vision of their church in flames, but they have forgiven those who burned it. Hate crimes are designed to either break your spirit or incite some type of violent response. We proposed to look beyond, and look above what the church burning was designed to do.
Love is always bigger than hate.
You have to reach for the bigger things in order to be able to overcome. The fence's removal came just days before the trial for the first of three white men charged in the death. About 75 people blacks and whites sang in celebration of the fence's removal. There were also tears. It had stood since the cemetery opened in 1836.