McNeil and three other Black freshmen held a famous sit-in at Woolworth’s in 1960, which inspired peaceful protests across ...

He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960 ...

The sit-in led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became a key part of the student ...

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Joseph McNeil was one of four students who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North ...

MIAMI – Civil rights leader Major General Joseph McNeil who staged the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, ...

The civil rights activist Joseph McNeil has died at the age of 83. In 1960, he and three other North Carolina A&T State ...

Joseph McNeil, along with Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.) and the late David Richmond and Franklin McCain, ...

Joseph A. McNeil’s legacy is a testament to the power of courage and conviction,” said Joseph McNeil Jr. “His impact on the ...

A Civil Rights icon who shaped history from a lunch counter in Greensboro has died. Major General Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington ...

Joseph McNeil, who helped break the color barrier, was memorialized at a funeral service in Hempstead on Monday.

In 1960, McNeil and three other college freshmen began sit-ins at what was then a "Whites Only" lunch counter in a Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparking youth activism.