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 ...
The Herald SC

He worked at Woolworth during famous Greensboro sit-in. Meet ‘The Man Behind the Counter’

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 ...
WFMY News2

VERIFY: Did the Smithsonian remove Greensboro sit-in artifacts from two museums?

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins would be removed from the Smithsonian's National Museum ...
WRAL

65 years ago, four Black students sat at 'all-white' Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro. Their protest for civil and human rights eventually ...