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 ...

PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING. LET’S BRING IN OUR JOSHUA DAVIS. HE IS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER AND MUSEUM FROM THE VERY SAME COUNTER THAT MCNEIL, KAZAN AND MCCAIN, AS WELL AS DAVID RICHMOND ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You don't have to be a historian to know about the legacy of Major General Joseph McNeil, whose life and legacy as one of the Greensboro Four didn't just make waves in the city, but ...

The Greensboro Four collectively helped to change the course of American history when they conducted a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter. Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, a group of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greensboro, NC, store's busboy offered note: “I am with you all the way.” Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, ...

One of the members of the Greensboro A&T Four sit-in movement, which sparked the Civil Rights movement, has died. Retired Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, 83, has passed away. He was a pioneering figure in ...