CHICAGO: Thousands of hate crimes are reported in the United States every year, but rarely do they involve the carnage seen at a black church in South Carolina where nine people were gunned down during a Bible study meeting.

Wednesday’s attack provoked comparisons to the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, which killed four little girls and wounded more than 20 congregants in one of the deadliest attacks carried out during the civil rights movement.

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