Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...

DECATUR, Ga. (WALB) - On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter. King’s attendance at that protest ...

Joseph McNeil, one of four college students whose sit-in at a Greensboro lunch counter launched a wave of civil rights protests across the South, has died. He was 83. His family confirmed his passing ...

RALEIGH, 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-in ...