A founding member of the "Friendship Nine" passed away at age 86. Thomas Gaither, the organizing member of the “Friendship Nine,” passed away on Dec. 23 in Pennsylvania at age 86. Gaither’s son, Kenn ...
South Carolina civil rights legend John Alexander Gaines, who spent a month in the York County jail in 1961 after protesting segregation in his hometown of Rock Hill, has died in Florence. Gaines, 83, ...
ROCK HILL, S.C. — John Gaines, a civil rights leader from South Carolina who made history during a sit-in at a Rock Hill restaurant, has died. The Ideal Funeral Parlor in Florence confirmed to Channel ...
ROCK HILL — For Thomas Gaither, 30 days of hard labor at a Rock Hill prison transformed into decades of a legacy in the civil rights movement. Gaither, a member of the Friendship Nine, died Dec. 23 in ...
Members of the Friendship Nine, from left, John Gaines, W.T. Massey, Clarence Graham, Willie McCleod, and Mack Workman listen in court as their convictions are vacated in 2015 at the Rock Hill ...
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