The civil rights activist Joseph McNeil has died at the age of 83. In 1960, he and three other North Carolina A&T State University students launched a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen from the Agricultural and Technical College of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hours before Joseph McNeil's viewing and memorial service in the campus auditorium, students at North Carolina A&T State ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Deena Hayes-Greene visited the Woolworth’s counter that sparked the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960, and discussed how the museum tells the story of the ...

Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle: Birthplace of a Whirlwind program was held at the National Museum of American History on January 14, 1995. The program for the commemoration of the birthday of Dr.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins would be removed from the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

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 ...