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 …
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