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 ...

Director Ilana Trachtman joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to discuss "Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round," a new documentary that uncovers never-before-seen footage and first-hand accounts from the landmark ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

A claim making the rounds online in November 2025 purported that fire hoses mysteriously turned off or ran dry during the high-profile Civil Rights Movement protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in May ...