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NC City To Consider Honoring Sit-In Leader With Street Signs

by Associated Press

In this Jan. 16, 2010 photo, Joseph McNeil speaks during a AFL-CIO conference in Greensboro, N.C. As a college freshmen McNeil sat down at a whites only Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, N.C., and refused to leave when he was not served. (AP Photo/Lynn Hey)

 

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.

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