The Greensboro Woolworth's was finally integrated on July 25, following a reported $200,000 in lost business. Mr. McNeil, who described the sit-ins as a campaign for "human dignity," continued to ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

GREENSBORO - Misinformation, misunderstanding, whatever prompted the rumor which had it that the Smithsonian Museum was getting rid of an 8-foot section of the Woolworth lunch counter where American ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson didn’t want Feb. 1 to pass without sharing his thoughts about the significance of that day in 1960 and the activism of his former classmates at N.C. A&T. That was the day four ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month putting Vice President JD Vance and an attorney in charge of finding and “removing improper ideology” from monuments, museums and the ...

They were four friends, all freshmen at a historically Black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And when they sat down at a segregated lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, they had no idea whether ...