The upstairs porch of Anne Blessing's home in Charleston, S.C., has been a stop on a popular historic home tour. For the first time, visitors will tour the kitchen where enslaved people once spent most of their lives toiling over hot fires. Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption
Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge, in Charleston, S.C., on June 19, 2015. AP hide caption
Dylann Roof is escorted from the Shelby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., on June 18, 2015. Chuck Burton/AP hide caption
A woman at a memorial service wears tributes to two of the nine people murdered at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sharonda Singleton and Ethel Lance. Sean Rayford/Getty Images hide caption
Raymond Smith of Charleston, S.C., kneels in prayer in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston before a worship service on June 21. Stephen B. Morton/AP hide caption
Fire crews took two hours to control the blaze at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, S.C., on Tuesday. Reuters/Landov hide caption
The casket holding Ethel Lance, who was killed during the shooting at Emanuel AME Church, is on view before her funeral at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., on Thursday. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A Confederate flag that's part of a Civil War memorial on the grounds of the South Carolina State House flies during a Martin Luther King Day rally in 2008. The state is under fire for continuing to fly the flag. Chris Hondros/Getty Images hide caption
Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in North Charleston, S.C, today. The 21-year-old man accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance and bail was set for $1 million on a charge of weapons possession. The judge said he did not have the authority to set bail on the nine counts of murder against Roof. AP hide caption
Mourners pass by a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. Stephen B. Morton/AP hide caption
Charleston residents visit a makeshift memorial for victims of Wednesday's mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Steet in Charleston, S.C. Randall Hill/Reuters /Landov hide caption
President Obama pauses while speaking in the White House Briefing Room about the church shooting in Charleston, S.C. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
An undated handout photo provided by the Berkeley County, S.C., government shows Dylann Roof at an unknown location. Berkeley County/Handout/EPA /Landov hide caption
This image of the trustees of Emanuel AME appeared in the 1916 book, Centennial Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Church, by Richard R. Wright. Rare Book Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hide caption
Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle early Thursday down the street from the Emanuel AME Church, following a shooting on Wednesday night in Charleston. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Vince Cameron has worked the docks at the Port of Jacksonville for more than three decades. If the city doesn't deepen the port, he says, a new breed of massive cargo ship will instead go to Savannah, Ga., or Charleston, S.C. Peter Haden/WJCT News hide caption
Visitors have flocked to the Angel Oak tree just outside Charleston, S.C., for generations. A local group has until late November to raise funds to buy a parcel of land that they say is needed to protect the live oak from development. Randall Hill/Reuters/Landov hide caption