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 ...
They were four friends, all freshmen at a historically Black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And when they sat down at a segregated lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, they had no idea whether ...
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The Greensboro Four: How Four Students Sparked a Movement That Changed Civil Rights Forever
On February 1, 1960, four Black men walked into the Woolworth’s general store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the world. Ezell A. Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David ...
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Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a North Carolina lunch counter, dies at 83
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-in protests across ...
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 ...
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