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 ...
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Joseph McNeil, Who Helped Sparked a Protest Movement at a North Carolina Lunch Counter, Dies at 83
McNeil was one of four freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro who sat down at the local "whites only" ...
A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara ...
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 ...
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 ...
The students remained in their seats until the business closed. Similar sit-ins had been organized as early as 1958, but the Greensboro sit-ins drew intense media coverage, serving to propel the civil ...
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