Former White Supremacist Store and Klan Meeting Space is Being Turned Into a Community Center to Promote Healing

Former White Supremacist Store and Klan Meeting Space is Being Turned Into a Community Center to Promote Healing
Jan 27, 2021
One of the surest ways to keep history from repeating itself is to shine a light in its darkest corners, and that’s exactly what this 67-year-old reverend has set out to do in the town of Laurens, South Carolina.
Reverend David Kennedy outside the Echo Theater
In 2019, Rev. David Kennedy and local historian Regan Freeman established the Echo Foundation. Its mission: transforming a symbol of racial inequality into an opportunity for reconciliation and education. Their target: the Echo Theater which, at one time, was a whites-only hall and later a storefront, museum, and recruitment center dedicated to glorifying white supremacy.

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