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One of the original
four taking part in the Woolworth sit-ins. A Wilmington native,
he graduated from Williston Senior High School. McNeil earned
a degree in engineering physics from North Carolina A&T
State University in 1963. His roommate at Scott Hall on the
A&T campus was another sit-in participant, Ezell Blair Jr.
McNeil spent six years as a U.S. Air Force officer and attained
the rank of captain. He is now a major general in the Air Force
Reserves. He worked in computer sales for IBM, as a commercial
banker for Bankers Trust in New York City, and as a stock broker
for E.F. Hutton in Fayetteville. He now resides in Hempstead,
N.Y. He is married to the former Ina Brown, and they have five
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