Historical Marker
The Glascock House
Historical marker location:
827 W Broadway Ave, Maryville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of West Broadway Avenue and South Cedar Street, on the right when traveling south on West Broadway Avenue.)
The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.