Additional Information
Criminal records cleared for activists decades later
click here to view CNN video report
Friendship 9 at ETV Civil Rights Summit – March 2, 2013
The Friendship 9 will be part of a Civil Rights & Social Justice Youth Media Summit on Saturday, March 2. The event is organized by
Friendship Jr. College Founders Day Featured Groundbreaking Ceremony
The 121st Founders Day celebration for Friendship Junior College was held May 19, 2012 at the Mount Prospect Baptist Church, 339 West Black St., Rock
Leaders
March 7, 1961: Rev. Ivory constructs a mass meeting to honor the Friendship 9 students that were released. He had CORE member James Farmer speak.
Students
Students continued to picket, protest, sit-in and refuse bail in Rock Hill, and other towns across the South did the same. A lot were successful
Press
February 18, 1961: The headline “Jail Yes, Bail No” was published on the front page of The Baltimore Afro-American followed by a slew of protests
Leaders
February 23, 1961: Three adult leaders in the community, Rev. Ivory along with George A. Hackley and Paul David Deitrich, were arrested for breach of
Students
February 17, 1961: Winthrop University is now a co-ed, integrated institution, but this was not the case prior to 1964. 19 African American Friendship College
March 2, 1961
Just two days shy of serving their full sentence, The Friendship 9 was let out of York County Prison Farm early. The reason was not
February 18, 1961
The Friendship 9, at this point, had served more than half of their time at the Prison Camp before the authorities found a reason to
February 1-2, 1961
After the ten were arrested, they spent the night in the Rock Hill jail before they were put on trial on February 1, 1961. Reverend