Friendship CME Church

Friendship was the one church in Claiborne Parish where the Claiborne Parish Civic League met, from January 1965 to 1973. In December 1964 a CORE letter counted 9,755 Black residents with 96 registered to vote, against 5,229 registered of 9,646 white residents. Frederick Douglass Lewis, a member here, led the league and the Homer chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice. In 1972 he filed suit; the federal court found the police jury and school board malapportioned, and in April 1973 Black candidates won seats on both.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 23 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 25 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• El Dorado Commercial Historic District — 28 mi
  The courthouse square and brick blocks of a town that jumped from 4,000 people to nearly 30,000 after the 1921 Busey well, listed on the National Register in 2003.

More markers nearby

• Sheriff Pat Garrett — 4.6 mi
• T. H. Harris — 6.2 mi
• Arizona Academy Site — 6.6 mi
• Cane Ridge / James W. Nicholson — 7.7 mi