The Reverend Alice Parson Wright’s first thought when she heard that a church near hers in Greeleyville, South Carolina, had burned was heartbreaking: “When I got the message last night, my first thought was: ‘Not again. Not again. Not again.’” Wright could have been referring to many things—a feeling of attack in the black community, the surprisingly common burning of churches across America—but she was thinking of the same church’s burning on June 20, 1995.