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

WXII 12 News will celebrate the life of a member of the Greensboro A&T Four, as a memorial will be held for Retired Maj. Gen.

McNeil, 26, unfurled a quilt emblazoned with a star and a U.S. Air Force logo and draped it over the half-open coffin of ...

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

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

McNeil, of Hempstead, sat at a segregated lunch counter in defiance of the Jim Crow South as one of the "Greensboro Four" in ...

Within weeks of the protest that McNeil and three friends started, sit-ins were launched in more than 50 cities in nine ...

The civil rights pioneer will be honored with a service at his alma mater, North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, ...

WFMY News 2 will bring the civil rights icon's memorial service to viewers on air and on WFMY+ on Thursday, Sept. 11, ...

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, one of the famed A&T Four whose 1960 sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth’s helped spark the Civil ...

As Major General Joseph McNeil is laid to rest this week in his hometown of Wilmington, the civil rights pioneer also will be ...

As Major General Joseph McNeil is laid to rest this week in his hometown of Wilmington, the civil rights pioneer also will be ...