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It's the latest in a string of fires at predominantly black Southern churches that began after a white gunman killed nine black worshipers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, about 50 miles south of Greeleyville, on June 17.
The fires have fueled concerns about the potential for a new wave of racist violence since the Charleston shootings, and the FBI has launched an investigation.
Asked whether Tuesday's fire could be related to the other recent blazes, Mark Keel, chief of the State Law Enforcement Division,
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of Charleston, "Certainly, I think we all are concerned about those things."Keel said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other federal agencies had been notified.
Mount Zion, founded more than 110 years ago, was burned to the ground June 20, 1995, by two members of the Ku Klux Klan, who pleaded guilty the next year.
President Bill Clinton attended the rededication of the rebuilt church a year later,
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that have been echoed in the last two weeks:"It was the church that saved the people until the civil rights revolution came along. And it is, therefore, I think, doubly troubling to people ... who spent their entire lives working for equal opportunity among our people, working for an end to the hatred that divided us for too long, to see our native South engulfed in a rash of church burnings.
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