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Many of my generation hoped that the brutality manifested during our United States Civil Rights era would not linger to erupt onto lived experiences of our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Yet . . it did. Emanuel A.M.E. Church and its generational congregations over the centuries has played a part in American history since the 1800s.The name Emanuel in various spellings translates broadly into "God with us."  http://www.behindthename.com/name/emmanuel As an historic African American denomination, the AME church and Emanuel AME is a member of a socially pro-active Christian (African Methodist Episcopal) group with religious roots in the racially torn America of its main founder Richard Allen during the 1700s http://www.ame-church.com/our-church/our-history/ Paraphrasing a community of faith theme stated by conscious newscasts: members of the congregation (for the church is really its body of members who worship in a building) are asking people t