Historical Marker
Nicely's Grocery Store
Historical marker location:
797 Vose Rd, Alcoa, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Vose Road and North Wright Road, on the right when traveling east.)
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.