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

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

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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 ...

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

Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, died in Long Island at the age of 82. According to his wife, he died of ...

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

Civil rights leader Joseph McNeil has died at age 83. Beginning with a Woolworth's lunch counter protest, McNeil helped ...

Major General Joseph McNeil, one of four college students whose sit-in at a Greensboro lunch counter launched a wave of civil ...

On February 1st, 1960, McNeil, then a freshman at North Carolina A&T State University, and 3 other African-American students ...

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 ...