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Civil rights leader Joseph McNeil dead at 83
NBC Newsยท2025-09-05 15:30

Joseph McNeel was a man with a mission to make a change. He passed away at the age of 83, but he was just 17 years old when the sitin movement began back in 1960. >> I became very angry at the fact that everyone talked about change, but very few people did anything about it. A civil rights icon and a decorated Air Force veteran, McNeel was part of the ENT4, staging a sit in protest at the FW World Wars lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1st of 1960. >> And I talked to mom. I said, "Mom, I might be goin ...