WILMINGTON, N.C. — Joseph McNeil, one of the A&T Four who helped launch the civil rights sit-in movement, will be laid to rest Saturday afternoon in his hometown of Wilmington.
McNeil was a freshman at North Carolina A&T College when he and three classmates staged a nonviolent protest at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro on Feb. 1, 1960.
The demonstration sparked sit-ins across the country and became a pivotal moment in the fight for civil rights, cementing the A&T Four’s place in American history…