This book covers the massacre of nine members of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. This took place on June 15, 2017. I was in Charleston, and drove right past this church without realizing what happened here in 2020. I just thought it was a beautiful old church, and I guessed it was historic, but I didn't realize this was the one that I had heard about in the news. I love the city of Charleston, and this book certainly taught be a lot about it. As far as this particular event goes, Dylann Roof scoped out this church and entered through a side door to attend the Bible study. When the study concluded, he fired 77 times at the people who welcomed him with open arms. He was taken into custody not long after, but this book really goes into detail about the hardships these members and their families faced in the aftermath. I am disgusted by the treatment of the families by the church leadership. They opened mail that was addressed to the families, took out donations, and absconded with a lot of the money. That "Bishop" and subsequent pastors behaved in a shameful manner and were happy to play into the tragedy, without caring for the people. Those that survived and the families of those that did not felt unwelcome in their own house of worship, and that is just gross behavior to me. Two other things that I learned were that during segregation, phone numbers of black people were listed in their own index behind white numbers in the phone book. I never knew that. I also learned that the horrifying bridge that I drove over, the Arthur Ravnell Bridge, was named after that politician for lobbying to have the money raised....but he was also a supporter of segregation and the flying of the Confederate Flag on the capitol grounds and liked to make snide, slick statements that were nasty in public. This was a really good book, aside from the tragic nature, and I would highly recommend it.