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Cecil Ivory
Reverend Cecil Augustus Ivory (March 3, 1921 – November 10, 1961) was a Presbyterian minister, disability rights activist and sit-in leader during the Civil rights movement.
In 2017, Ivory was named a Freedom Walkway Local Hero for his activism by the City of Rock Hill.
Ivory was born to an African American Baptist family in Arkadelphia, Arkansas on March 3, 1921. He was the third of four children, and his father died of a fever while Ivory was a toddler. As a fourteen-year-old, he received a significant back injury from a fall from a pecan tree, but taught himself to walk again since the family could not afford medical treatment. The injury may have caused a blood clot that later permanently disabled him.
Determined to continue his studies, he obtained a place at Cotton Plant Academy, a Presbyterian co-educational boarding school in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. At Cotton Plant Academy, he was the star of the football and basketball teams. Thanks to his football skills, he was offered a scholarship to attend Mary Allen Junior College, a Presbyterian school in Crockett, Texas, from 1937 to 1939. His time spent studying there drew him to the Presbyterian Church.
Ivory would go on to study at Johnson C. Smith University and earn a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity in 1946 from its school of theology. While at the university, he was the Dean of Pledges for the school's chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi.
After becoming ordained in 1947, Ivory served as a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Irmo, South Carolina. He was also the Director of Religious Education at Harbison Junior College.
In 1949, he transferred to Hermon Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill, South Carolina. While serving as a pastor, he frequently travelled into the countryside to serve at a rural mission church. During one of these trips, he fell off of a pick-up truck, which aggravated his childhood injury and caused him to use a wooden cane and then a wheelchair for mobility.
He also obtained a master's degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity in 1960 from Johnson C. Smith University for his ministry.
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Cecil Ivory
Reverend Cecil Augustus Ivory (March 3, 1921 – November 10, 1961) was a Presbyterian minister, disability rights activist and sit-in leader during the Civil rights movement.
In 2017, Ivory was named a Freedom Walkway Local Hero for his activism by the City of Rock Hill.
Ivory was born to an African American Baptist family in Arkadelphia, Arkansas on March 3, 1921. He was the third of four children, and his father died of a fever while Ivory was a toddler. As a fourteen-year-old, he received a significant back injury from a fall from a pecan tree, but taught himself to walk again since the family could not afford medical treatment. The injury may have caused a blood clot that later permanently disabled him.
Determined to continue his studies, he obtained a place at Cotton Plant Academy, a Presbyterian co-educational boarding school in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. At Cotton Plant Academy, he was the star of the football and basketball teams. Thanks to his football skills, he was offered a scholarship to attend Mary Allen Junior College, a Presbyterian school in Crockett, Texas, from 1937 to 1939. His time spent studying there drew him to the Presbyterian Church.
Ivory would go on to study at Johnson C. Smith University and earn a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity in 1946 from its school of theology. While at the university, he was the Dean of Pledges for the school's chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi.
After becoming ordained in 1947, Ivory served as a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Irmo, South Carolina. He was also the Director of Religious Education at Harbison Junior College.
In 1949, he transferred to Hermon Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill, South Carolina. While serving as a pastor, he frequently travelled into the countryside to serve at a rural mission church. During one of these trips, he fell off of a pick-up truck, which aggravated his childhood injury and caused him to use a wooden cane and then a wheelchair for mobility.
He also obtained a master's degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity in 1960 from Johnson C. Smith University for his ministry.