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 ...
He was the son of Joseph Ralph and Betty (Jett) McNeil. Maurice was baptized as an infant by his grandfather, the Rev. Ambrose Jett, in Washburn, North Dakota, and later confirmed in his faith as ...
As part of our Black History Month celebration, Nate Burleson sits down with Joseph McNeil, one of the four students who led the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960. Meeting at the original Woolworth's ...
Joseph McNeil and the Greensboro Four staged a sit-in at a Whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960, a protest that lasted more than five months and became a turning point in the fight ...