ATLANTA -- The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, has died.

Wilmington native and civil rights icon Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil has died at 83. He was one of four Black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth ...

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a key activist who led peaceful sit-ins that took place across the South, died Thursday morning. A press release published by his alma mater, North Carolina A&T University, ...

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native whose sit-ins with the Greensboro Four helped spark the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, has died. McNeil passed away on Thursday, Sept. 4 at the age of ...