Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native whose sit-ins with the Greensboro Four helped spark the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, has died. McNeil passed away on Thursday, Sept. 4 at the age of ...
The New Orleans native and Civil Rights icon was honored at the 76ers-Warriors game in California.
Wilmington native and civil rights icon Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil has died at 83. He was one of four Black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth ...