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 ...

DECATUR, Ga. (WALB) - On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter. King’s attendance at that protest ...

Joseph McNeil, one of four college students whose sit-in at a Greensboro lunch counter launched a wave of civil rights protests across the South, has died. He was 83. His family confirmed his passing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Historically, when students at American ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the ...