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He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation.
By Bernard Mokam
Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three other freshmen from a historically Black college held a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. — a nonviolent protest that motivated students across the nation to rally, march and picket — died on Thursday in a hospice in Port Jefferson, N.Y. on Long Island. He was 83.
