Editing Greeleyville, South Carolina (section)

===Burning of Mt. Zion AME Church===
On the night of June 20, 1995, during a string of over thirty suspicious fires at [[African American]] churches between 1995 and 1996, [[Mount Zion AME Church (Greeleyville, South Carolina)|Mount Zion AME Church]] was burned as the result of arson by two [[Ku Klux Klan]] members.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ku Klux Klan : A History of Racism and Violence |date=1997 |publisher=Diane Pub Company |location=Montgomery, AL |isbn=9780788170317 |page=42}}</ref> President [[Bill Clinton]] traveled to Greeleyville in June 1996 to attend the dedication of the rebuilt church, vowing to enlist the full power of the federal government to put an end to the mass burnings of African American churches prevalent at the time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Broder |first1=John M. |title=Clinton Vows to End Burnings of Black Churches |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/159049681/ |access-date=December 31, 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |agency=Newspapers.com |date=June 13, 1996}}</ref> The church became a national symbol of arsons following Clinton's visit to Greeleyville.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Graham |first1=David A. |title=The Burning and Re-Burning of a Black South Carolina Church |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/the-burning-and-re-burning-of-mt-zion-church/397490/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=December 31, 2022 |language=en |date=July 1, 2015}}</ref>