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 ...
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 ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — On the day before N.C. A&T will remember the Greensboro sit-ins at its annual commemoration, the two surviving leaders of the sit-ins spoke about the events of Feb. 1, 1960. Joseph ...
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 ...
A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara ...
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