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	Four students from Huntington sat down with retired Air Force Major Gen.&nbsp;and civil rights pioneer Joseph McNeil Wednesday&nbsp;to ask him about the day, nearly 60 years ago, when&nbsp;McNeil and three friends sat at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
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Joseph McNeil talks to Huntington students about sit-in at whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina nearly 60 years ago

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