Topic: Joseph Mcneil

On the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in, the protesters recall why they succeeded The four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store on a breezy Monday afternoon, bought a few items, then sat down at the "Violating a social ...
On February 1, 1960, four young African-American men, freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, entered the Greensboro Woolworth's and sat down on stools that had, until that moment, been occupied exclusively by white customers. William Yeingst, chairman ...