As South Carolina honors victims, Alabama lowers its flags
Thursday, June 25, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- State senator and pastor Clementa Pinckney was carried Wednesday into the Statehouse where he served the people for nearly 20 years, becoming the first African-American since Reconstruction to rest in honor in the South Carolina Rotunda.
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