Sixty-five years ago, Joseph McNeil and three fellow college students from North Carolina A&T took a stand against segregation by simply sitting down. On February 1, 1960, McNeil — along with Ezell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the early 1960s. IT WAS A REUNION SIX DECADES IN THE MAKING. TWO MEN WHO WORKED ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The nation’s first civil rights sit-in is now memorialized forever, where it actually happened in downtown Oklahoma City. You might know the history of OKC teacher Clara Luper ...