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Eight days after the Charleston, S.C., shooting, funerals and memorials for the nine people massacred will begin Thursday.

The memorial service for Ethel Lance was scheduled for 11 a.m. 聽in North Charleston.聽Later Thursday, services for Sharonda Coleman-Singleton are scheduled. Funerals聽for the other seven victims of last week's shooting were scheduled to be held almost daily for the next week.聽

President Barack Obama scheduled to deliver the eulogy at the memorial service for Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of聽Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Friday at聽11 a.m. at TD Arena on the College of Charleston campus, reports the Associated Press.

As 海角大神 reported聽Obama eulogy for Reverend Pinckney, is potentially a big moment in the nation's conversation on race.

Dylann Storm Roof is charged with fatally shooting Pinckney and eight parishioners June 17 during a Bible study meeting at the basement of the church. The 21-year-old was arrested a day after the shooting.

On Wednesday, some 4,000 people filed past the casket of Pinckney, in the rotunda lobby of the South Carolina Capitol.聽The 41-year-old state legislator is the first African-American since Reconstruction in the late 1800s to rest in honor in South Carolina's Statehouse Rotunda.

Hours before the body was brought in, members and non-members gathered into the Emanuel AME church鈥檚 basement to attend the regular Wednesday night bible study.

"Because of our faith, we've shown up once more again to declare that Jesus lives and because he lives, we can face tomorrow," interim pastor Norvel Goff told a multiracial crowd.

Pinckney has been active in his religious community leadership since he was 13, according to Emanuel AME Church.聽He was a graduate of Allen University with a degree in Business Administration and held a Master鈥檚 in Public Administration.

Pinckney was also a longtime member of the state's Democratic Party. At the age of 23, he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1996 and in 2000 he was elected to the State Senate.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Since the shooting the Confederate symbols in the south have been under fire.聽On Monday, Gov. Nikki Haley called on South Carolina lawmakers to vote to remove the Confederate battle flag flying in front of the Statehouse.

On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley issued an executive order that brought down the Confederate flag flying on Capitol grounds.