Friendship College

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| name = Friendship College

| image = Friendship college original building.jpg

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| image_alt = Friendship college as it appeared in 1910

| caption = Friendship college as it appeared in 1910

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| former_names = Friendship Normal and Industrial College,
Friendship Junior College

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| type = Historically black college

| established = {{start date|1891|10|12}}

| closed = {{end date|1981|12|16}}{{cite news |last=Earley |first=Pete |date=1981-12-16 |title=Friendship College Closing Its Doors Friday |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/12/16/friendship-college-closing-its-doors-friday/b7849fd2-5707-4c60-a3ef-6a8e59c4a1cd/ |url-status= |work=Washington Post |location= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=}}

| founder = Masel Phillip Hall{{cite web |url=http://www.friendshipcollege.org/index.html |title=Friendship College |website= |publisher= |access-date= |quote=Founded in 1891 by Dr. Masel Phillip Hall, Friendship Normal and Industrial Institute served as a place for young African-American to be educated so that they could move forward in society as ministers and educators.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312194008/http://www.friendshipcollege.org/index.html |archive-date=March 12, 2011 |url-status=dead}}

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| religious_affiliation = Baptist

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| city = Rock Hill

| state = South Carolina

| country = United States

| zipcode = 29730

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| colors = {{color box|purple}}{{color box|gold}} Purple and Gold

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| sporting_affiliations = South Atlantic Athletic Conference

| mascot = Tigers

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Friendship College was a private Baptist historically black college, established in 1891, and located in Rock Hill, South Carolina.{{cite web|title=America's Lost Colleges|url=http://www.lostcolleges.com/#!friendship-college/c1xcx|accessdate=7 September 2016|publisher=}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uT4LPyzvEWUC |title=An Era of Progress and Promise: 1863–1910 |date= |publisher=Priscilla Pub. Co. |year=1910 |editor-last=Hartshorn |editor-first=W. N. |location=Boston, MA |pages= |language=en |oclc=5343815 |editor-last2=Penniman |editor-first2=George W.}} The school was closed permanently in 1981, and demolished after a fire.

The founding president of Friendship College was Rev. M.P. Hall.{{Cite book |last=Bacote |first=Samuel William |url=http://archive.org/details/whoswhoamongcolo00baco |title=Who's Who Among the Colored Baptists of the United States .. |date=1913 |publisher=Kansas City, MO, Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. |others=The Library of Congress |pages=76–77 |chapter=M.P. Hall, AM, DD}}