Content Details
DCPD-202400010 - Remarks at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- January 8, 2024
- President
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Document Categories
- Addresses and Remarks : Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC
- Subjects
- 2021 civil unrest and violence at U.S. Capitol
Air pollution, public health impact
Book bans in public and school libraries
Broadband and wireless technologies
Childcare, access and affordability
COVID–19 pandemic
COVID–19 vaccines
Diversity, equity, and inclusion, improvement efforts
Economic improvement
Eldercare and home health services
Environmental justice
Federal court nominations and confirmations
Federal student loans, partial forgiveness
Gaza, conflict with Israel
Gun violence, prevention efforts
Hate-based violence, efforts to combat
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Housing discrimination, efforts to combat
Inflation
Insulin cost controls
Israel, military operations in Gaza
Job creation and growth
Lead service lines, replacement efforts
Medicare and Medicaid programs
Policing best practices, improvement efforts
Poverty reduction efforts
Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts
Racial equality, improvement efforts
Renewable energy sources and technologies
Slavery, U.S. (historical)
Small businesses, promotion efforts
South Carolina, 2015 shooting in Charleston
South Carolina, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston
South Carolina, President's visit
Supreme Court Associate Justice
Unemployment rate
Vice President
Voter participation
Voting rights, protection efforts
- Names
- Beaman, Scott; Biden, Francis W.; Biden, James B.; Clyburn, James E.; Freeman, Ruby; Green, Samuel L., Sr.; Harris, Kamala D.; Jackson, Ketanji Brown; Manning, Eric S.C.; Moss, Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye"; Obama, Barack; Owens, Valerie Biden; Pelosi, Nancy; Pence, Michael R.; Pinckney, Jennifer; Pinckney, Malana; Riley, Joseph P., Jr.; Roof, Dylann S.; Sanders, Felecia; Sheppard, Polly; Trump, Donald J.
- Locations
- Charleston, SC
- Notes
- The President spoke at 12:41 p.m. In his remarks, he referred to Rep. James E. Clyburn, who introduced the President; Samuel L. Green, Sr., presiding bishop, Seventh District African Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbia, SC; Eric S.C. Manning, pastor, Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church; Silvester Scott Beaman, former pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, DE; Felecia Sanders and her granddaughter, Jennifer Pinckney and her daughter Malana, and Polly Sheppard, survivors of the shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, on June 17, 2015; Dylann S. Roof, accused gunman in the shootings at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church; former President Donald J. Trump; former Vice President Michael R. Pence; Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in her former capacity as Speaker of the House of Representatives; and Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, former employees in the Elections Department of Fulton County, GA. He also referred to his sister Valerie Biden Owens and brothers James B. and Francis W. Biden.