A North Carolina street in the hometown of a leader of a Greensboro sit-in may be designated in his honor.
The StarNews of Wilmington reports the city council next month will consider a resolution to designate North Third Street in honor of retired Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil.
McNeil is a Wilmington native and a graduate of Williston High School. He was one of the four North Carolina A&T State University students who sat at the segregated lunch counter in Woolworth department store on Feb. 1, 1960, and refused to leave.
On Sept. 3, the council will consider a resolution calling for signs to be placed along a city-maintained portion of Third Street. The road's name would stay the same.
A request for the portion of the street that the state maintains could be made later.