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Joseph McNeil talks to Huntington students about sit-in at whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina nearly 60 years ago

Four students from Huntington sat down with retired Air Force Major Gen. and civil rights pioneer Joseph McNeil Wednesday to ask him about the day, nearly 60 years ago, when McNeil and three friends sat at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Credit: Howard Schnapp; Photo Credit: Granger

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