Friendship Nine 'Friendship Nine' cleared of 1961 civil rights sit-in crimes Black civil rights protesters credited with reinvigorating the 1960s U.S. sit-in movement were absol... Jan 28, 2015 08:33 PM EST 'Friendship Nine' to be cleared of civil rights sit-in crimes Fifty-four years after nine young black men became the first U.S. civil rights protesters to serve j... Jan 19, 2015 12:09 AM EST