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

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

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

Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch ...

In 1960, four Black students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest and others like ...

Coretta Scott King died in 2006 at the age of 78 from complications with ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer for women.

Despite efforts to restrict the teaching of Black history, civil rights veterans are crafting college courses for educators to share.

A Civil Rights icon who shaped history from a lunch counter in Greensboro has died. Major General Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington ...

Joseph McNeil, a member of the Greensboro Four, dies at 83. His sit-in protests were significant to the Civil Rights movement ...

Joseph McNeil, who has died aged 83, was one of the Greensboro Four, a quartet of black students who led a non-violent protest against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. He later ...

On Feb. 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University, Ezell Blair Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin ...