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Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83  The New York Times Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil of Legendary A&T Four Passes Away at 83  North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Joseph McNeil, member of the Greensboro Four, dies at 83  WUNC Joseph McNeil, known for 1960 lunch counter sit-in protest, dies aged 83  The Guardian Major General Joseph McNeil, …

There was a time when Joseph McNeil was heading toward a life of segregation. Separate bathrooms, beaches, theaters, schools, elevators, cemeteries. Separate was what he knew. “I had experienced that, my parents had experienced that, their parents had experienced that,” McNeil said in 2014. “And in all likelihood, my off-spring, my children, would have faced the same issues.” McNeil, and …

Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in protests across the US south, died Thursday, his family and university said. He was 83. McNeil, who later became a two-star general, was one of four freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University in …

Facebook Tweet Email Link AP  —  Prosecutors will take “no further action” against a Florida sheriff’s deputy in the arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers during a February traffic stop. The actions of Officer D. Bowers of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office did not constitute a crime, according to an investigative report released …