Q 01/05

The Friendship Nine, jailed after a 1961 sit-in in Rock Hill, were named for what kind of local institution?

A) A Baptist church

B) A junior college

C) A masonic lodge

D) A labor union

Answer · why

B) A junior college

A junior college gave the group its name: eight of the nine were first-year students at Friendship, a small Black school in Rock Hill. The ninth was a...

Q 02/05

Ten men were convicted after the 1961 Rock Hill sit-in; what did the one left out of the Friendship Nine do?

A) Paid his fine

B) Won his appeal

C) Fled the state

D) Joined the Army

Answer · why

A) Paid his fine

One man paid his fine, so history remembers nine. The others took 30 days of hard labor instead, which turned a routine arrest into national news.

Q 03/05

Judge John C. Hayes III cleared the Friendship Nine in 2015; how was he related to the judge who sentenced them?

A) His son

B) His grandson

C) His cousin

D) His nephew

Answer · why

D) His nephew

Hayes was his nephew: the uncle had sent the nine to 30 days of hard labor in 1961. Fifty-four years on, the younger judge said the court could not re...

Q 04/05

What did the diner that replaced the Friendship Nine's Rock Hill five-and-dime mark with each man's name?

A) The menus

B) The windows

C) The stools

D) The booths

Answer · why

C) The stools

The stools carry the names, one man to a seat back. The diner's owners kept the original lunch counter where police had dragged the students away with...

Q 05/05

Which future congressman was beaten at Rock Hill's bus station in 1961, months after the Friendship Nine's sit-in?

A) Andrew Young

B) James Clyburn

C) John Lewis

D) Charles Rangel

Answer · why

C) John Lewis

John Lewis was attacked as he stepped toward the whites-only waiting room. In 2008 Rock Hill's mayor formally apologized to him on the city's behalf.