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 ...

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 against ...

5.40. NOW, THE TRIAD IS HOME TO A NEW NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, THE F.W. WOOLWORTH BUILDING IN GREENSBORO GOT THE DESIGNATION FOR ITS CONNECTION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. OUR ERIN BURNETT JOINS ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro, North Carolina marked the 65th anniversary of the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter that sparked a national civil rights movement. On February 1, 1960, four North ...

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a key activist who led peaceful sit-ins that took place across the South, died Thursday morning. A press release published by his alma mater, North Carolina A&T University, ...

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 ...

In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...