Nancy McLaughlin

Joseph McNeil of the Greensboro Four died last week, but the story of the day he and his friends sat down at the segregated F.W. Woolworth Department Store, demanding service, kicking off a sit-in movement that spread far beyond the city, are now part of American history.

Here are some things you may not know about Greensboro Four.

They were just teens

They were teenagers who had gravitated to each other during freshman year. In their dorm rooms at N.C. A&T, talking studies, sports, girls and the unfairness of Jim Crow laws. Joseph McNeil, the Socrates and Langston Hughes-quoting quiet guy from Wilmington; David Richmond, the four-letter high school athlete and math whiz who had grown up in Greensboro; Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.), the Boy Scout from Green

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