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September 8, 2025

Civil Rights Activist Joseph McNeil, 83, Dies; Took Part in Greensboro Sit-in in 1960
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The civil rights activist Joseph Mc Neil has died at the age of 83. In
1960, he and three other North Carolina A&T State University students
launched a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in
Greensboro; they refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter after
being denied service. Their action inspired a nationwide wave of sit-ins
aimed at desegregating businesses and public spaces.


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