A memorial service was held in Greensboro on Thursday afternoon for Wilmington native and civil rights icon Major General Joseph Alfred McNeil.
The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumnus was one of the four Black freshmen who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1, 1960.
Some of those in attendance at the service on campus shared their remembrances. Victor Simmons calls McNeil a giant…