The International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro is holding a book launch Saturday for “Belles of Liberty: ...
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, 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 Woolworth's was finally integrated on July 25, following a reported $200,000 in lost business. Mr. McNeil, who described the sit-ins as a campaign for "human dignity," continued to ...
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 ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson didn’t want Feb. 1 to pass without sharing his thoughts about the significance of that day in 1960 and the activism of his former classmates at N.C. A&T. That was the day four ...
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 ...