Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Flags in the state of North Carolina will be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of a civil rights icon who helped to shape history in Greensboro. Major General Joseph ...

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 ...

Hours before Joseph McNeil’s viewing and memorial service in the campus auditorium, students at North Carolina A&T State University paused on their way to class Thursday to remember the man they said ...

McNeil was one of the “North Carolina A&T Four” who led a historic sit-in at the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter back in 1960. He was just 17-years-old at the time, but that simple act of defiance helped ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph McNeil speaks about the Woolworth’s sit-in in a 2023 interview. Alejandra Villa Loarca / Newsday RM via Getty Images Joseph McNeil, one of the “Greensboro Four” who sparked nationwide ...

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Maj. Gen. Joseph A. McNeil Sr., one of the Greensboro Four who helped ignite the civil rights movement with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in.