Joseph Alfred McNeil was a major general in the United States Air Force who was best known for being a member of the Greensboro Four – a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
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