Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a North Carolina lunch counter, dies at 83 | CNN
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 protests across the South, died Thursday, his university said. He was 83.
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