Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in protests across ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A Civil Rights icon who shaped history from a lunch counter in Greensboro has died. Major General Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native, died at the age of 83, North Carolina ...

PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING. LET’S BRING IN OUR JOSHUA DAVIS. HE IS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER AND MUSEUM FROM THE VERY SAME COUNTER THAT MCNEIL, KAZAN AND MCCAIN, AS WELL AS DAVID RICHMOND ...

They were four friends, all freshmen at a historically Black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And when they sat down at a segregated lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, they had no idea whether ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson didn’t want Feb. 1 to pass without sharing his thoughts about the significance of that day in 1960 and the activism of his former classmates at N.C. A&T. That was the day four ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

The Greensboro Woolworth's was finally integrated on July 25, following a reported $200,000 in lost business. Mr. McNeil, who described the sit-ins as a campaign for "human dignity," continued to ...