Spirit of America Celebrate 250: Lunch counter sit-ins

The Greensboro sit-ins were a pivotal moment for non-violent civil rights protests in the early 1960s. This movement spread ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Joseph McNeil, civil rights pioneer known for 1960 lunch counter sit-in protest, dies

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 ...
ABC7

Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a Greensboro lunch counter, dies at 83

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 ...
Berkshire Eagle

While sit-ins raged in the South in 1960, Pittsfield's integrated Woolworth store drew only a brief picket

It is a plus to hear from baby boomers when a story brings back memories from their youthful days. Sometimes these memories are bittersweet. Following my Berkshire Eagle story on Pittsfield’s ...
The Grio

Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a North Carolina lunch counter, dies at 83

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 ...