Despite efforts to restrict the teaching of Black history, civil rights veterans are crafting college courses for educators ...
The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...
He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960 ...
A Civil Rights icon who shaped history from a lunch counter in Greensboro has died. Major General Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington ...
Major General Joseph McNeil was one of the Black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter, sparking a national movement. McNeil ...
The sit-in led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became a key part of the student direct-action civil rights movement.
Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, died in Long Island at the age of 82. According to his wife, he died of ...
Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...
Major Gen. Joseph McNeil, one of the four black college freshmen who staged the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, died Thursday at 83, North Carolina A&T State ...